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Jose Mourinho was sentenced to his third straight defeat as late strikes from Camilo Zuniga and Troy Deeney earned Watford a thoroughly-deserved victory. After defeats by Manchester City and Feyenoord in the previous eight days, United were put to the sword by the Hornets in the first half – with Etienne Capoue’s fourth goal of the season scant reward for their dominance.
Liverpool picked up an excellent win at Stamford Bridge thanks to Jordan Henderson’s stunning strike. Dejan Lovren has given the Reds an early lead over Chelsea before their skipper made it 2-0 with an unstoppable long-range effort.
Everton have an extra dimension to their game since Ronald Koeman arrived. They have obviously tightened up at the back – how could they be any looser? – but they can also still play, and they are quick and dynamic going forward. A 3-1 at home to Middlesbrough means the Toffees are still unbeaten and not many teams in the league can say that of themselves.
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Interlude 18 (Donation Bonus #2)
Posted on January 31, 2013 by wildbow
“Water torture,” Justin said. “It’s what the C.I.A. uses.”
“No, please.”
Justin shook his head. “What good is begging going to do? There’s hardly a point to torture if you want it.”
“The victim can aspirate water during water torture,” Dorothy commented, as though she were commenting on paint shades. “But I could have been doing it wrong.”
“Burning, then. Start on the back, chest and stomach, work our way to the extremities. They say a burn hurts worse than any other pain, inch for inch,” Justin said. “By the time we work our way to the face, the armpits, or the soles of the feet…”
“Oh god.”
“Scarring,” Geoff said, looking up from his newspaper. “Chance of infection. He’d be facing as much risk as he would with the water torture. It might even be harder to treat. Harder to explain if we had to go to a doctor.”
“Razors?” Justin suggested.
“Razors could work,” Dorothy said. “I’m good with a razor.”
“Hear that?” Justin asked. “She’s good with a razor.”
“Please. There has to be another way.”
“There are a number of other ways,” Dorothy said. “Tearing out your teeth, fingernails and toenails is one. Castration, force feeding, breaking bones, rats, flaying…”
“I meant besides torture.”
“Psychological methods,” Justin suggested.
“Isolation,” Dorothy offered. “Sensory deprivation, intoxicants. Would you like cream in your coffee, Geoff?”
“No thank you, dear.”
“The bacon is done. Why don’t you two come and eat?” Dorothy offered.
Justin sighed. “Come, Theo.”
The boy gave them wary looks as he stood from the armchair and crossed the length of their hotel room. Dorothy had laid out a veritable feast: bacon, eggs, english muffins, toast, french toast, a bowl of strawberries, a bowl of blueberries, and a bowl of fruit salad. There was orange juice and pots of both coffee and tea. She was just setting down a plate of bacon, leaving barely enough room for anyone’s plates.
It would have been too much for eight people to eat, but she didn’t seem to realize that. She smiled as Justin ushered Theo to the table and sat down. Her clothes were more fit for a job interview than for a fugitive, with a knee-length dress, heels, earrings and makeup. Geoff, like his wife, was too well dressed for the occasion, wearing a button-up shirt beneath a tan blazer, his hair oiled and combed back neatly.
They can’t act, Justin thought. They follow their routines like bad actors following a script. A housewife preparing a meal for her family, the husband at the table.
He’d known that the pair started every day with the same routine, like clockwork. Wake, don bathrobe, and collect a newspaper. Geoff would step into the shower as Dorothy stepped out, and she would be done grooming by the time he was through. Once they were both dressed, they’d head to the kitchen, and Geoff would read the paper while Dorothy cooked.
But always, the details would be off. Things any ordinary person would take for granted were forgotten or exaggerated. Dorothy inevitably prepared too much, because it was harder for her to consider how hungry everyone was and adjust accordingly. Only two days ago, Justin had noted that Geoff would take a few minutes to read the front page of the paper, turn the page, and stop.
Now he couldn’t help but notice. It was the same thing every day. For the twenty or thirty minutes it took Dorothy to put everything together and set it on the table, Geoff would stare at the second and third pages of the newspaper.
Justin had asked about the headlines and the articles. Geoff never remembered, because he wasn’t reading. He could read, but he didn’t. He spent nearly forty minutes in total, every day, like clockwork, doing little more than staring into space, pretending to read.
Put the paper away, it’s time to eat, Justin thought. Yes dear. Mmm. Smells delicious.
“Put the paper away, it’s time to eat,” Dorothy said. She was holding the coffee pot, stepped behind Geoff, putting a hand on his shoulder, and bent down to kiss him on the top of his head. Automatic, without affection.
“Yes, dear. ” Geoff said, smiling up at his wife. “Mmm. Smells delicious.”
Jesus fuck, they scare me, Justin thought. But he plastered a fake smile of his own onto his face, grabbed one of the oven-warmed plates and served himself. Theo did much the same at the other side of the table, minus the smile.
Kayden emerged from one of the bedrooms, her hair still tangled from sleep, wearing a bathrobe. Mousy, shorter than average, looking exceedingly human, she was Dorothy Schmidt’s antithesis.
“Aster slept well last night,” Justin commented. “Didn’t hear her crying.”
“She slept through the night. We just have to maintain a routine as we keep moving,” Kayden said.
“We were just discussing ways to force Theo’s trigger event.”
“It’ll come on its own,” she said. “We have two years.”
“One year and eleven months,” Theo said.
Kayden glanced at him but didn’t respond.
“It should have happened already,” Justin pointed out. “It’s easier for children with inherited powers, and Theo’s the son of Kaiser, who’s the son of Allfather. Third generation.”
“Maybe I didn’t get powers,” Theo said, not looking up from his plate.
“Or maybe you’ve lived a sheltered enough life that you haven’t had a reason to trigger,” Justin retorted.
“I don’t want to get tortured. Physically or psychologically. There has to be another way.”
“Torture?” Kayden asked.
“It’s one line of thought,” Justin said, trying to mask his annoyance. He’d purposefully brought it up while Kayden was out of the room. “We were trying to think of methods that wouldn’t leave him unable to fight Jack when the time came.”
“No torture. Theo’s right. We can find another way.”
Justin frowned, “Every day we wait is a day we don’t have for training his abilities, and he’ll need all of the training he can get.”
“Because I have to fight the Slaughterhouse Nine and Jack Slash. And he’ll kill a thousand people if I don’t,” Theo said. “Me and Aster too.”
Justin glanced at the boy, saw the white-knuckle grip he had on his knife and fork, looked at Kayden, who had french toast speared on her fork but wasn’t raising it to her mouth. She stared off into space as the maple syrup slowly dripped down to the plate below.
She doesn’t know what to do any more than we do.
“You come from a good pedigree,” Justin commented. “Kaiser was strong enough to rule over the better part of Brockton Bay, as Allfather did before him.”
“Which doesn’t do us any good if I don’t get powers,” Theo mumbled.
“If worst comes to worst,” Kayden said, “We fight the Slaughterhouse Nine. Night, Fog, Crusader and I. Okay?”
Justin frowned, but he didn’t speak.
Theo voiced half the doubts that Justin was keeping silent, “You didn’t fight them last time. I’m not saying you were wrong to leave, but-”
“But we didn’t fight them then. You’re right,” Kayden said. “I’d hoped the others would stop them. The heroes, the Undersiders, Hookwolf…”
“And they didn’t,” Justin said. “Which means we have to assume Jack’s going to follow through. That gives us a time limit. Theo needs powers, he needs training, we need to find the Nine, and we need to stop them. What if we went to the Gesellschaft?”
Kayden glanced at the other two who were sitting at the table. Dorothy and Geoff. Neither of the two had reacted to the name of the organization that had created them. Or, at least, they hadn’t reacted outwardly.
“I’m more concerned that they’d help the Slaughterhouse Nine if it meant killing a thousand Americans,” she said. “And I’m not sure I want Theo to recieve the kind of power they offer.”
“If we contacted them through Krieg…” Justin trailed off.
“What?” Kayden asked. She let her knife and fork drop to her plate with a loud clatter. “You think they’d give us assistance with no strings attached? That we could call in a favor with Krieg and they’d give Theo powers, without the follow-up attention?”
“No. No, I suppose not.”
“They turn people into weapons,” Kayden said. “Then they decide where those weapons are best positioned, for the cause. There’s two good reasons why they wouldn’t have given fresh orders to Night and Fog since the Empire collapsed. Either they can’t get in touch with us-”
“I somehow doubt that.”
“Or Night and Fog are forgotten. Presumed dead or ignored,” Kayden finished. “In which case we don’t want to remind them that we’re still around.”
“I somehow doubt that, as well,” Justin said. “They have to know we’re alive.”
“Then what? Why leave these two in my care?”
“Because it serves their agenda,” Justin answered. He finished off his plate, spooned some blueberries onto the side, and poured himself some orange juice.
“What agenda?”
“The Empire fell. The Chosen fell. Only Kayden Anders and her Pure remain. If they hope to retain any foothold in the Americas, it’ll be through you.”
“I don’t want to give them a foothold in the Americas.”
“By the sole fact that you exist, you’re giving it to them. Your reputation, your success, it gives the Gesellschaft the opportunity to say, their cause is being furthered in the West. Even if your goals and theirs are only aligned in abstract. So they leave Night and Fog in your care, because it keeps you dangerous, it helps ensure your success, and maybe because it gives them a way to strike at you if they decide you’re a danger to the cause.”
Kayden glanced at Dorothy, studying Night’s civilian appearance.
“More coffee?” Dorothy asked, smiling.
“God, yes,” Kayden muttered. She held out her cup for a refill.
“What about you?” Theo asked.
Justin turned to look at the boy. “Who? Me?”
“Where do you stand, with the cause?” Theo asked. Justin didn’t miss the inflection at the end.
“I’m a simple man,” Justin said, smiling. “I like steak and potatoes. I like a good fight, a serious game of baseball or football. American football. I like a good woman’s company-”
Kayden cleared her throat. When Justin met her eyes, she was glaring at him. Not jealousy, more of a mother bear protecting her cub.
Justin smiled a little, more with one side of his mouth than the other. “-And I believe that they are fucking things up, out there. And the rest of the world’s letting them.”
“People with different colored skin.”
“People with differences,” Justin said. “Faggots, gimps, mongoloids. Kaiser got that. I talked to him one on one, and he had the right ideas. He got that America is ours, that they’re polluting it over time, letting these people in. But he was too focused on the big picture, and he was working with the Gesellschaft, which was way too big picture for my tastes. Still, birds of a feather. I worked under him because I wasn’t about to find others elsewhere, and I didn’t feel like going it alone. Then he introduced me to Purity.”
Theo glanced at his onetime stepmother.
“And I think we’re more in sync, Kayden and I,” Justin said. “If Kaiser was the visionary, the guy on top, the guy with the dream, working to achieve something over decades, then Purity’s the detective working the streets. And that’s the kind of simple thinking I can get behind.”
“So you don’t support the Gesellschaft?” Theo asked.
“I can’t support what I don’t understand,” Justin said. “And what I do understand is that we need to give you your trigger event before it’s too late. Because Jack and his gang of psychopaths are the sort of freaks I can’t stand, and I’ll be fucked if we let him beat you on this count. They don’t get to beat us, and you’re one of us.”
Theo drew in a deep breath, as if he was going to say something, and then heaved it out as a sigh, slow and heavy.
“Whether you like it or not,” Justin added, just under his breath.
Theo glanced at him. He hadn’t missed the comment.
At a normal volume, Justin said, “You’re vetoing the torture, where we’d be trying to get him to a trigger state in a safe, controlled environment. We need another game plan.”
Kayden sighed. “For now? We’ll let Dorothy clean up. Have you two done your morning sparring?”
Justin shook his head.
“Give Theo some training while I shower, then you two can wash up. Get dressed to go out. I have one idea regarding Theo’s trigger event.”
Justin stood with a plate in hand, but Dorothy was already walking around the table, her heels clicking on the tile. She took the plate from him, smiling.
“Come on, then,” Justin urged the boy. “Let’s see how much of it’s sinking in.”
“Not much,” Theo said.
“Probably not,” Justin replied. He reached for his power and stepped out of his body, a spiritual mitosis. A ghostly image of himself, wearing the same clothes, crossed the ‘living room’ of the space the hotel had given them. He created two more replicas of himself, one walking until its legs were sticking through the couch.
“Four against one?” Theo asked.
“You think the Nine are going to play fair? Now, do you remember priority one?”
“Self defense.”
“Protection comes first, always. The core of any martial art or self defense. Perception’s second. Know what’s going on, because it’ll help you protect yourself, and it’ll help you identify the right moment to strike. Arms up. Let’s see your stance.”
Theo raised his arms in the ready position, positioned his feet further apart.
Justin looked the boy over. He’d lost a little weight, though he wouldn’t look much skinnier if he kept exercising like he was. He’d put on muscle, and look just as bulky, at least for a while.
But that stance…
Justin suppressed a sigh. Those one thousand people are fucked.
“Harvard,” Justin said.
“This way,” Kayden said. She had Aster in a harness, the baby’s head resting against her chest.
“You know your way around Harvard? Color me impressed.”
“I looked it up online. This way. I’d rather not spend too much time in public.”
Justin noted the crowd of older teenagers and twenty-somethings. It was summer, but the school wasn’t empty. With the warmth of summer, the students were wearing shorts and short sleeves, as well as short dresses. Justin smiled at a group of girls as they passed by. One of them looked over her shoulder at him, gave him a glance that roved from head to toe and back up again.
“Justin,” Kayden said, raising her voice.
“Coming,” he said. Damn.
They made their way across the campus. Dorothy and Geoff had stayed behind, leaving Kayden, Justin and Theo to carry out the errand with Aster in tow.
They reached a tower, built to match the other buildings of the campus. Justin held the door for Kayden and Theo, pausing to note the lettering across the entrance: ‘Dept. Parahuman Studies’.
Fitting. Kayden’s plan was clear, now.
They entered the elevator, and Kayden checked a slip of paper, hit the button for the ninth floor. She tucked it into a pocket behind Aster’s back, then kissed her sleeping daughter on the forehead as the doors closed.
“We should get in and out fast,” Justin commented.
Kayden pursed her lips.
“Always have to consider that someone made us, and that they’re calling the authorities.”
“I know,” she said.
“Fuck Coil,” Justin snarled.
Kayden glared at him, and her eyes and hair both glowed with a trace of light. Some free strands of hair lifted as the light touched them, as if they were buoyant, or as if Kayden was underwater and slowly sinking. “Watch your language around Aster.”
“She doesn’t understand.”
“But she will, one day. Get in the habit now.”
Justin sighed. “Will do. We going in hard or soft?”
“You could rephrase that. But this is a soft entry.”
They departed the elevator as it reached the ninth floor. Kayden double checked the slip of paper, and they began the process of figuring out where the room was. It wasn’t intuitive, as the rooms didn’t seem to be numbered sequentially.
They stopped at one door that was labeled ‘914’, with a nameplate below reading ‘Dr. Wysocki’.
“What the hell kind of name is Wysocki? Polack?”
“He’s one of the top researchers on Parahumans,” Kayden said. “The best in the Massachusetts area.”
“You’re the boss, and it’s your call,” Justin said, shrugging. “Just saying I pointed it out in advance.”
“What difference is it going to make?” Theo asked. “Doesn’t make any difference to his ability to do his job.”
“So cute,” Justin said. He gave Theo a pat on the cheek, and the boy pushed his hand away in irritation.
Kayden knocked, and the door swung partially open.
A young man, no older than twenty-five, hopped out of his swivel chair, pulling earbuds from his ears. “Ah. Hi?”
“We had a few questions,” Kayden said.
“I’ve never had a student bring their family before.”
“We’re not students,” Kayden said. She strode into the room, and Justin gave Theo a push on the shoulder to prod him forward. When everyone was inside, he closed the door and stood with his back to it.
“Huh. I thought I recognized you, would have been from class,” the man said.
“We’re not students,” Justin echoed Kayden’s words. His tone didn’t have the intimidating effect he’d hoped for. The young man’s forehead was wrinkled in concerns of a different sort.
“You’re not here for the office hours? Figures. I sit around for three hours twice a week, five straight weeks, someone finally shows and they aren’t a student.”
“You’re Wysocki?” Justin asked.
“No,” the young man gave him a funny look. “You’re really not students. I’m the T.A. Filling in while he’s at an event. Peter Gosley.”
He extended a hand, but nobody accepted it.
“Fuck,” Justin said. “This is a waste of time.”
“If you have questions…” Peter trailed off, letting his hand drop.
“Trigger events,” Theo said, his voice quiet.
Peter’s eyes fell on the boy, widening slightly. “You have powers? You just got them?”
“I need them,” Theo answered.
Peter gave them a funny look. “I… I’m not sure I understand.”
“Tell us what you know about trigger events, and perhaps we’ll explain,” Kayden said.
“I… that’s a broad field. What do you want to know?”
“How to have one,” Theo said.
“Trust me, there isn’t a single government out there that isn’t trying to pull it off. None have had much success with the various methods they’ve tried. Not to the point that anyone else has been able to copy their methodology. If anyone was succeeding, it’d be off the radar. Maybe the Protectorate.”
“What methods have they tried?” Justin asked. “The governments.”
“Anything? Everything. Drug induced panic attacks. Kidnappings. Torture. Some with willing participants, some even with participants in the dark. The Queensland Trials-“
“Stop,” Kayden said. Peter stopped. “Participants in the dark? And nothing worked?”
“It sometimes worked, a lot of stuff sometimes worked. The problem is, the act of getting a trigger event tends to throw a controlled situation into disarray. A government or organization pours hundreds of man hours and half a million dollars into identifying people who might be parahumans, by whatever metric they’re using, tracking them, covertly acquiring them, and inducing the parahuman state… and it’d work one in two hundred times. Half of those times, they’d wind up with a parahuman in an agitated state and things would fall apart. So a lot of the successes end up being failures of a diffferent sort.”
“But they haven’t found a consistent way of getting people to trigger?” Kayden asked.
“No. Fact is, it’s harder when you’re trying to provoke a trigger event. Even if the participant doesn’t know you’re trying it.”
“Why?” Kayden asked.
Peter shrugged. “There’s theories. There’s the specific trigger theory, which suggest that each individual demands a particular kind of trigger event, so any attempts to force it are essentially attempting the wrong form of trigger. There’s the specific circumstance theory, which is different, because it suggests that it’s not just a particular type of trigger that’s demanded, but the specific time or event.”
“You’re saying it’s predestined,” Justin said.
“Some scholars say it’s predestined. I don’t. Um. Other theories… there’s intelligent intervention.”
“Phrase it in American fucking English,” Justin said.
“There’s no need for rudeness,” Peter said. He adjusted his glasses and frowned at Justin.
“Please phrase it in American fucking English,” Justin clarified.
“Please explain,” Kayden said, shooting Justin a look.
“It means there’s someone or something that’s deciding who gets powers and when. There’s subtheories… Aesthetic analogue, where they’re saying the powers tend to relate to the trigger event somehow, so obviously someone’s doing it on purpose. Uh. Intelligent powers, where they say the powers are sentient and they’re making the call on their own. Ties into other areas of study, and it’s a favorite of mine. There’s the-“
“This isn’t helping us,” Justin cut in.
“Quiet. Everything helps,” Kayden said.
“We’re short on time.”
Peter gave him a funny look. “Look, I’m not fully understanding what you’re getting at. It’s great that people are interested in this stuff, but this notion you have that, because your son wants powers, you’re somehow going to give him a trigger event? That’s a little freaky, it’s not really possible. And, uh, it’s borderline abuse, if not actual abuse.”
“It’s a complicated situation,” Kayden said. “What else can you tell us about trigger events? Beyond theories?”
“The manner of trigger event seems to impact the powers. That’s frosh level stuff. Physical pain, physical danger; physical powers. Mental pain, mental crisis? Mentally-driven powers.”
Justin frowned. And being the brother of a dying, half-blind, deaf retard of a girl who got all the attention? All of the gifts, the money? Being made to get surgery for her sake, give up years of my lifespan so she might live? Getting caught pulling the plug, only for it to do little more than set alarms going?
Was his power really a mental power? He’d always considered it more physical.
He looked at Kayden, studied her concerned expression.
Peter was still talking, responding to something Kayden had said. “Drugs tend to create conditional powers. It’s not hard and fast, but you get situations where the power is directly linked to one’s physical, mental or emotional state. We think it’s because the power works off a template it builds as the powers first manifest. If someone is riding an emotional high as they trigger, their powers will always be looking for a similarly excited state to operate at peak efficiency, often an emotion or drugs. When people were caught trying to fabricate trigger events, sometimes they were intending to use this so the subject would be more easily controlled.”
“I wonder if lack of food and water could create similarly conditional powers,” Kayden commented.
“I’m… are you talking about starving him?” Peter’s eyes were wide now.
“Not at all. I’m… speculating.”
Justin could follow her train of thought. He’d heard the story through the Empire’s grapevine, once. A sixteen year old girl, driving for the first time, down a side road, getting in an accident where her car rolled off the road, out of sight of anyone passing by. Trapped… starving, dying of thirst.
Getting powers that fed off and required other resources. Light.
He glanced at her, and she offered him a curt nod. Without speaking, they’d come to a mutual agreement that this ‘Peter’ knew what he was talking about.
“What’s the impact of being the child of a parahuman?” she asked.
“Um. I love that you’re interested, and yeah, I wasn’t really doing anything, but maybe if you have this many questions, you should take a class?”
“He’s the son of a parahuman,” Kayden said, pointing at Theo.
Cat’s out of the bag now.
“No kidding? Wow. Who?”
“Kaiser,” Kayden said.
Peter’s eyes widened as he looked at Theo. Then something seemed to click, and he looked up at Kayden and Justin with a note of alarm in his expression.
“Yeah,” Justin said. “Smart man, and you’re only figuring it out now?”
“I saw the stuff on the news. Thought I recognized you. Purity and…”
“Crusader. So maybe now you understand we’re serious. And how we’re not interested in taking a class,” Justin said.
“If he’s Kaiser’s son, and Kaiser’s Allfather’s son… he’s third generation.”
“And he doesn’t have powers,” Kayden said. “It’s crucial that we fix that.”
“I… I don’t really know. It’s supposed to be ten times easier to get powers if you’re second generation. But we don’t have research on third generations yet. It’s only pretty recently that we had the first third-generation cape on record. The baby in Toronto.”
“Didn’t hear about that,” Kayden said. She frowned. “A baby?”
Peter’s eyes fell on Aster. “Oh. Wow. Is she third generation too?”
“Pay attention,” Justin said.
“The… yeah. Each successive generation seems to produce younger capes, by lowering the barrier to entry, the severity of the requisite trigger event.”
“So why haven’t I triggered?” Theo asked.
“I don’t know. There’s a lot we don’t know. Maybe… maybe you don’t have powers.”
“I have to.”
“It’s a question of luck.”
“You don’t understand. If I don’t get powers, a lot of people will die.”
“I’m not sure I follow.”
“It doesn’t matter,” Justin said. “Give us all the information you have. Every way you’ve heard about people trying to trigger, and how well they worked.”
“That’s a six month lecture series unto itself!”
“Talk fast,” Justin said.
“Um. There’s meditation. Either to tap into your deeper psyche or to tear down the walls between yourself and your worst fears. There’s theories that the powers themselves are intelligent, and they’re worked into the host’s head, before or after the trigger event. Sometimes the meditation’s related to that, but it’s usually people trying to have a second trigger event.”
“That’s not relevant to the boy, is it?” Justin asked.
“The research is related! There’s a lot of research into second trigger events because it’s a lot easier to find willing parahumans than it is to find potential parahumans. The methods that people try tend to be similar, too. It’s just… a lot of the time, they fail for opposite reasons.”
“Opposite?” Kayden asked.
“It’s not confirmed, it’s just an idea, but the idea the powers are sentient? Well, either the second trigger event opens up communication, frees the powers to act on their own more, or if you don’t buy that stuff, it breaks down the mental barriers between the altered part of the brain that controls the powers and the part that doesn’t. At least, that’s going by the patterns we’ve seen. Except… well, we think sometimes the reason people can’t have a second trigger event is because they’ve already had one. You can’t really distinguish a single trigger event from having two in quick succession.”
“Like a multiple orgasm,” Justin commented. Kayden glared at him.
“More or less. There’s more parallels than that, but yeah.”
“Crusader is right, this isn’t helping him,” Kayden said.
“What kind of trigger events did Kaiser and Allfather have?”
Kayden and Justin exchanged glances.
“No idea,” Kayden said, frowning.
Peter frowned. “That would have helped. At least we know they both had similar powers. Allfather could conjure iron weapons from the air immediately around himself, send them flying. Kaiser could call metal out of any solid surface. Both are the kind of powers you’d see from almost purely mental trauma. If the trend continues…”
He trailed off, leaving the sentence hanging. Theo would probably require mental trauma to trigger.
“Hard to imagine Kaiser having mental trauma. He seemed so confident,” Kayden said.
“His dad was Allfather. Not so hard to imagine,” Justin replied, absently. He thought of the college girls and stepped over to the window, curious if he’d be able to make out any from this high up. He froze.
“Kayden,” he said.
“Cops. And containment vans.”
“Someone made us?” Kayden asked.
“And saw us enter the building,” Justin finished. “They’re surrounding us on the ground.”
“Shit!” Kayden swore.
Aster whimpered, then started crying.
Didn’t you tell me to watch my language in front of Aster? Justin thought.
Theo was sitting in a swivel chair, hands clasped in his lap, his eyes watching Kayden, waiting for her cue.
Justin noted the tension of Theo’s grip, the way he seemed to retreat into himself. The fat little boy who was nothing like Kaiser. Maybe he hadn’t inherited powers at all because he wasn’t his father’s son. If his mother had cheated on Kaiser, gave birth to this pudgy blob, it would explain why he didn’t have powers. It would mean he wasn’t a second generation cape, let alone a third.
“Hmm.” Justin watched more PRT vans arrive. They were spreading out, clearly anticipating Kayden’s artillery-level attacks, and they had the damn foam-bead nets they used for dealing with fliers. “Theo, who’s your mom?”
“Heith.”
Justin sighed. Heith was Fenja and Menja’s cousin and guardian, Kaiser’s first wife, killed in a turf war with the Teeth, back in the old days of Brockton Bay. She has powers after all.
Somehow, all of this would be easier if he could believe that Theo was illegitimate.
“Crusader,” Kayden said, “Can you stall them? We have more questions.”
He nodded, shut his eyes, and drew on his power.
It was as simple as stepping forward while staying in the same place. A ghostly phantom appeared, followed by another, and another. One headed for the elevator shaft, while the other headed for the stairwell. He directed the remainder to sink through the floor.
“What else can you tell us? Something we can use,” Kayden said.
“If the authorities are here, I don’t know if I should say.”
“You should,” Justin said. “Because we’ll hurt you if you don’t.”
“Don’t,” Theo said.
Justin gave the boy his best dispassionate look.
“He’s been helpful,” Theo said.
“He hasn’t solved your problem,” Justin said. He was dimly aware of his other selves engaging with the enemy as they moved into the building. One fought them in the stairwell, immune to any strike or bullet, yet fully capable of pushing a man down the stairs, into the people behind him, fully capable of strangling a man.
Peter shifted positions nervously. His voice rose in pitch as he spoke, “I don’t know what you want. I can’t give you an answer because there aren’t any!“
“Think,” Justin suggested.
“You expect me to do in five minutes what the best scholars in the world haven’t figured out in thirty years?”
“Well put,” Justin said. More clones were still splitting off, breaking away from himself to sink through the floor. Some had moved beyond the building to attack the men who were manning the turrets on top of the van. With luck, he and Kayden would be free to fly to safety with the children.
“This… this is insane! What am I supposed to tell you? I’ve outlined some of the best theories we have!”
“If it helps,” Justin said, leaning towards Peter, “I’m going to kill you if I don’t leave here satisfied. Think about that.”
“Kayden,” Theo said, “You’re not going to let him, are you?”
“Crusader,” Kayden said. “Is that really necessary?”
“I can’t even think straight under this pressure!” Peter cried.
“I imagine you feel very similar to someone about to have a trigger event,” Justin said. “Maybe that will inspire something or fill in the blanks for some half-baked idea you had once.”
“I don’t… There’s isolation.”
“An isolation chamber?” Justin asked.
Peter shook his head. “No. More basic. It’s a common trend. People who have trigger events, they don’t usually have a good support system. Their family, their friends, they tend to fail them, or be the cause of the problem. I… I wrote a paper a while back about how Masters tend to have loneliness as part of their trigger events, and how maybe that was why Masters tend to be villains. Because you need support and social pressure to be more of a good guy. My professor then, the guy who I work for now, Dr. Wysocki, he tore me to pieces. Too many other parahumans have it as part of their history. Isolation. It wasn’t enough to suggest a correlation. He said you could call it a common theme for nearly all of the trigger events out there.”
Justin was in the middle of creating another ethereal copy of himself when he stopped. It snapped back into place. He thought back to something earlier in the day.
“Kayden, let’s go.”
“I’ve got our answer. Let’s go.”
Justin nodded.
“To the roof?” she asked.
“As fast as you can move with the baby.”
Kayden rose into the air, her hair and eyes lighting up.
“Come on, Theo,” Justin said, “I’ll carry you.”
He spawned a ghostly replica as Kayden left the office. Theo hesitated as the replica got closer.
“What’s wrong?” Justin asked.
“What he just said… You’re going to leave me. Isolate me.”
“Yeah,” Justin said. His ghost-self lunged, and Theo threw himself back with such force that he fell over in the chair. The ghost was on him in a second, pinning him down to the floor with one hand around his throat.
“Don’t. You heard what he said. If you force it, it won’t happen,” Theo protested, his voice barely above a wheeze with the hold the ghost had on his neck.
“I’m willing to take that chance. In the worst case scenario, you’re their problem, not ours. The heroes can look after you and figure out what to do with you.”
“Justin! Crusader!” Theo managed a strangled scream, but Justin was already in the doorway, not even pausing or hesitating at his words. “It won’t work if you try to make it happen!”
Justin left Theo behind, stepped into the stairwell, noting a gap between the stairs that was big enough to fly between. He created a clone and left it overlapping his body, using its flight to lift himself into the air.
Kayden hadn’t flown for safety yet. She was waiting on the rooftop, Aster writhing in the harness, screaming bitterly.
“Fly,” he said.
“Where’s Theo?”
“Would you believe me if I said he was coming?”
He could see her expression shift in time with the realization. “You didn’t.”
“I did. And you won’t go back for him.”
“Like hell I won’t. He saved Aster when Jack was going to kill her, he might have saved me in the process. I owe him-“
“-And we’re paying him back by leaving him.”
“No. No, we aren’t.”
“He’s one of our own, kind of. I get that. But… he was never going to help the cause.”
“The cause,” Kayden spat the word.
“Purifying the world, cutting out the rot, becoming a symbol of better things. It’s not him.”
“He’s my stepson.”
“And isn’t that the problem? Remember this morning, at breakfast? He was worried he wouldn’t get powers. That he wouldn’t be able to stop Jack. And how did you respond? You reassured him. You told him we’d fight the Nine if he couldn’t.”
Kayden only glared, eyes shining with painful brightness.
“When you said that, part of me, I thought we didn’t fight the Nine then, how could we two years from now? Theo said it outright. He’s sharper than he looks sometimes. Sharper than he acts. But here’s the thing, at the same time, a part of me felt like I’d realized something, and it took me until now to get it sorted in my head.”
“You’re reassuring him, when that’s the last thing we want. When there’s a crisis, he looks to you. The most basic requirement for a trigger event is you get to a point where you can’t go anywhere. Pushed to your limit and then pushed further. He can’t get there so long as we’re there as a safety net. As a support system.”
“So we’re supposed to abandon him?”
“We just did,” Crusader said. “The authorities are just getting to the ninth floor now, my clones are letting ’em by. By the time we got there, they’d have him secured, and they’d be ready to spray us with that foam.”
“You could use your power, disable them without any risk.”
“I could. But I won’t.”
Kayden flared with light, and for a second, he thought she was going to shoot him.
The blast of solid light didn’t come.
Justin sighed, “He’ll be hurt, he’ll be pissed, and he’ll be alone. They’ll quiz him on us, get every detail they can, and if I know him at all, it’ll tear him up, because he might not like us, but we’re the closest thing he’s got to family…”
Kayden glanced toward the door.
“…And that’s the best thing we can do for him right now,” he finished.
“I never was the mom he needed,” Kayden said.
“Well, it’s too late now.”
She walked over to the roof’s edge, peered down. “Any net launchers?”
“Nobody to aim them now. Everyone’s fighting my doubles.”
She glanced back toward the door, absently cooed for Aster to stop crying.
There was a flash of light. By the time it cleared away, she was merely a glinting speck in the distance.
He glanced at the door, then flew after her.
Up to you and you alone now, boy, he thought.
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136 thoughts on “Interlude 18 (Donation Bonus #2)”
three rights make a left. on January 31, 2013 at 00:04 said:
after reading this chapter, we can see theo will be an important player in future events
Anzer'ke on January 31, 2013 at 06:09 said:
Yeah, like the fall of Gesellschaft, methinks.
munkyfud on February 2, 2013 at 09:33 said:
Jack Slash puts into motion the events that end the world. Is little Theo going to get some powers that will cause this?
All father can make iron weapons appear around him out of thin air, and Kaiser has a similar control, although not specifically towards Iron, iirc. If he is their spawn, it is very likely he will get the same powers.
A stars #1 enemy is iron. Once it starts producing iron, it is doomed. I wonder if the end of the world will come about when Theo kills the sun?
Okay, several problems.
Firstly: Many of the scenarios Noelle saw involved “mere” millions dying, and I believe all had some survivors for a while.
Secondly: It was never said what metal Kaiser made, exactly, but his power was making it appear out of solid surfaces.
Finally: The reason iron “kills” stars is because when they start fusing iron, they’ve run out of fuel for fusion. Fusing iron takes energy rather than releasing it, which means that when a star is down to iron it’s out of fuel. Unless his power is to turn other things into iron, no dice. Even so, he’d need to be in range of the sun, and transforming a substantial proportion of it into iron–as in, several times the mass of the Earth. Probably several thousand times. After that, he’d need to WANT to turn off the sun. It’s hard to say which of these things is least likely, even assuming the iron-transforming power.
In short: No fear from that.
Horatio Von Becker on May 3, 2014 at 23:51 said:
Dinah, not Noelle.
greatwyrmgold on May 4, 2014 at 10:51 said:
How the heck did I make that mistake?
Shame WordPress lacks an edit function. And while I’m complaining, I like the way Worm’s metacomments are indented better than how it works on Pact.
Creating iron doesn’t take energy — it’s (almost) the heaviest element that that can be created by exothermic fusion.
Anyway, creating a significant amount of iron in the sun would potentially extend it’s lifetime by allowing H burning to go on longer, but that would probably change the amount of power the sun radiates (up or down I’m not sure).
If you can move matter straight from one energy state to another, sure, but it doesn’t work like that in real life. In real life, there are intermediate energy states which require so much energy to get to that they will almost never happen under normal circumstances.
This should be obvious—if it took no energy to transform matter into iron, then all matter would have long since turned into iron, or at the bare minimum would be turning into iron constantly. We don’t observe that, therefore iron clearly cannot be made from other substances with zero energy.
I’m no astronomer, but I doubt that more iron in the Sun would make it burn longer. If you transformed hydrogen into iron, there would be less hydrogen (duh), giving the Sun less time before it burned out. If you added iron, the Sun’s gravity would go up, increasing the rate at which hydrogen fuses into helium and therefore decreasing its lifespan.
Also, if you extended the Sun’s lifetime without changing the energy available to it*, you would need to make it burn less bright; if it burned brighter, it would run out of fuel faster.
*Somehow. Real stars, where the only natural variable is the amount of gas in the star, are a bit more complex due to that one variable changing so many things.
This has been Astrophysics with a Biologist.
Gilgamesh on October 8, 2018 at 06:56 said:
I hate to be the “a wizard did it” guy, but that detailed explanation of how physics work as we can observe them in our reality? Parahuman powers throw that shit out the window. What does breaking physical laws mean in a world where a parahuman with the right powers could make time and space their bitch?
Exactly what they do in our world. Especially when your speculation on what a power could do is based on them.
Mike on August 10, 2019 at 00:09 said:
His power being the cause is what I jumped to too. If jack was killed before leaving the city he wouldn’t have as urgent a need to have a trigger event but it would happen eventually.
Maybe he just makes something that is contagious through metal, that’d explain the range of death numbers; it’d depend on how well they could quarantine anything metal.
WyldCard4 on January 31, 2013 at 00:25 said:
Ooh, that was fun. Just what I needed tonight. Thank you very much for having the bonus update be this week. I sincerely enjoyed this one a lot.
Hm, have to wonder when Theo will be important. My guess is some kind of heroic sacrifice near the end where he stands up against the Jack Apocalypse or whatever endboss closes Worm. He’s really not got enough character to have a major character position, but I could easily see him playing a small but crucial role, most likely saving a main character.
Yog on January 31, 2013 at 02:07 said:
AM I the only one seeing how this would work?
Theo kills the world.
It’s very simple. In two or three years Jack comes for Theo, causing him to have simultaneous primary, secondary and perhaps even tertiary trigger event.
At this point Theo, whose power is metal control (look at Kaiser / Allfather) either destroys all iron on Earth (including that in people’s blood) or stops the rotation of Earth core, causing Earth magnetic field to fail or something else along those lines.
The point is, I’m 90% sure that Theo will kill the world.
Psycho Gecko on January 31, 2013 at 02:20 said:
I have just the song for him from yet another lovable omnicidal sociopath.
You know, my favorite thing about the Worm comment section is probably the numerous references to other things I love.
We haven’t seen the limits of third-gens yet. I’m very curious about that baby in Toronto.
eduardo on January 31, 2013 at 09:00 said:
Agree with both of you. There is a time limit for world`s end and there is another, very similar, for when Jack comes back for Theo.
Theo kills the world or something similar.
TheAnt on January 31, 2013 at 00:30 said:
May favorite kind of interlude where the world gets expanded. You spoil us wildbow. So much new info. Plenty of governments are trying to force trigger events but there are problems. So I question why the merchants had such an easy time making trigger events. Surely there are crappy/ruthless governments in the world willing to stage large scale fights to the death somewhere. People might have had 2nd trigger events without knowing it, this might actually explain why some parahumans are so much stronger than others and seem mentally unbalanced. The isolation thing, with the lack of support network makes alot of sense considering all of the parahumans we know. This might also explain why Taylor has been able to get so much support from the other undersiders. She offers them unconditional support, and caring by her very nature which they never got growing up. Night/fog just became even creepier and I wonder if they are from Germany. Masters tend to be villains. Any predictions for Theo? I’m going to say he is going to gain some mastery of
magnetism and someday join the Undersiders. He doesn’t believe in their stupid cause, seems like a good person, might want to join with the one group that did the most damage to the nine, and I think he would get along well with the other Undersiders.
nomananisland on February 1, 2013 at 06:29 said:
What was “easy” about the way the Merchants caused trigger events? They didn’t trigger anyone, they had the mixtures that gave superpowers, did they not? I’m pretty sure they held fights and gave the winner powers in a bottle.
And, if I’m mixed up, then they had hundreds of people in a death mosh-pit in the hopes that a small percentage might trigger because of the trauma. That sucks for the hundreds of people being maimed or killed during the attempt. Nothing “easy” there and it fits with what governments are trying to do in the story. It works, but it’s messy. Kind of “break eggs to make an omelette” over and over and over.
Blake on February 1, 2013 at 11:14 said:
They managed to spark one trigger event. The kid with the razor sharp sparks of light. Can’t remember his name. Eraser?
wildbow on February 1, 2013 at 11:22 said:
Scrub.
CaspianX on October 2, 2014 at 04:27 said:
He suggested the name Eraser. Skidmark made him change it to Scrub.
Given that the Merchants apparently only had three or four parahumans by that point, and had presumably been hosting those sorts of events for some time, it may be that they had an extremely low success rate and still managed to get a success every now and then due to a high number of attempts.
Peter said that government attempts only worked roughly 1 out of 200 times, and half of those successes resulted in parahumans in an “agitated state”, presumably resulting in supervillains. The Merchants may well have torn through hundreds of people before getting a successful trigger event, and not cared as much if their process resulted in someone who was mentally unstable – after all, they’re a group drug-addicted supervillains, so that was probably going to be a given anyway.
As a result, the Merchants’ attempt to manufacture supervillains made a lot of sense, given that they had absolutely no compassion for their candidates, who they undoubtedly saw as expendable, and given that they didn’t have to be especially picky about the mental state of any who triggered.
Theo can’t take this route because he *isn’t* expendable, and there’s only one of him and not hundreds to churn through a system that only rarely produces the required result. And on top of that, if the process changes him into someone who no longer cares about Jack’s threat, even getting powers would ultimately be pointless.
wildbow on January 31, 2013 at 00:35 said:
I’m currently housesitting/dogsitting a fair distance from home (and will be for a few weeks) and the tv channels are pretty limited, and my laptop can’t handle games (even Spelunky makes it overheat), so I figure I’ll get a lot of writing done. Writing and reading both (though I’m a fast reader and I’ll burn through everything on hand quickly enough).
Did a chapter for tonight because I could.
I’ve increased the donation benchmark. Getting a month+ behind, it’s an indicator I need to change something. I’m thinking that for every six to eight bonuses I release, I’ll increase the target amount, with the # of releases/target amount being based off of the readership/donation amounts. Worm’s audience grew by roughly 30% since late November, so I think it’s pretty fair.
If there’s still money in the pool as I get towards the story’s end, I’ll consider a special arc, or a series of epilogues to wrap things up, maybe with polls so you guys can choose who you want to see. And, just to tease, if I’m getting steady donations, I’m sure to give more consideration to post-worm stories in the wormverse. 😉
Thanks for reading. Feel free to Vote and rate if you enjoyed.
Is there a reason you aren’t grey anymore?
There is. I just have no clue what it is.
Random Lurker on January 31, 2013 at 00:54 said:
I’ve finally donated some, as I feel kinda guilty for enjoying such great work without really helping you out. If anything, I hope you can use some of our money for a better computer, especially if you can’t even play the simplest of games!
Anyways, I would vote for the epilogues, as I’m sure there would be so much to wrap up on, including answering lingering questions about the rest of the Wormverse at large. Or you can just make sure your next project is as planned out as possible. I know I’m looking forward to that, too.
Haha, this is just my computer for when I’m traveling. My home PC is alright (if 5 years old).
Thnak you very much, R.L.
I’ve done what I can nonmonetarily to support you, short of actually carrying you around.
Psycho Gecko on February 1, 2013 at 16:42 said:
Or helping you write. Or blocking spammers. Or running around the internet posting “Worm: Prepare to be Skullfucked by Awesome” comments. Or carving the website into the moon. Or updating the wiki. Or relabeling gummy worms with the site. Or streaking through the Superbowl with an “I Heart Skitter” sign. Or brushing your hair and giving it an inappropriate sniff.
Got any other ideas?
Writing down a note with a link to the site, putting it in appropriate library books as faux bookmarks with ‘Hey Ted, check this one out too.’
Hydrargentium on February 1, 2013 at 20:51 said:
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do the Superbowl thing! PLEASE?!
Random Lurker on February 1, 2013 at 22:02 said:
Hg, are you sure you, or anyone else, would really want to see Gecko stark naked? I’m sure in the Wormverse, that would lead to massive numbers of trigger events, ultimately leading to the end of the world.
Huh. Maybe that’s what Dinah saw ending the world. Coil gave her the drugs so she could function without remembering that trauma.
Anzer'ke on February 1, 2013 at 23:51 said:
I wonder what the most inappropriate book to stick a Worm link in would be…
Dealing with your PTSD.
The Arachnophobe’s Handbook.
So Clockblocker’s first stop at the library after that bank.
Epilogues sound good to me. You can always leave room to do another story in the wormverse. Or even better, a sequel down the road with a possible time skip.
Dues on January 31, 2013 at 01:20 said:
You could always just increase the benchmark whenever you get too far ahead (like now).
Interesting chapter, and completely dissociated from the current storyline. Yet, we get tantalizing hints of future events.
1. We finally get to see Night and Fog as civilians, and they’re still creepy. How’d they get that way?
2. We hear about Gesellschaft, Krieg, and “the cause.” I wonder if there’s any relation to Cauldron, especially with the power-granting stuff.
3. Trigger event theories all around, including everything the comment community has talked about. Which is right? Maybe all of them?
4. Theo has now lost the little confidence and self-respect he gained after protecting family from Jack. How will Theo turn out? Good? Bad? Crazy?
I need to congratulate Wildbow for making unapologetic Neo-Nazis understandable and sympathetic. With the rate Worm is going to its ending, we likely won’t see how all the questions are answered, especially how and if Theo can stop Jack Slash. I only hope for an epilogue of sorts for that. No matter what, I’ll definitely read it.
Gesellschaft sounds like a nazi sort of organization based in the east. While there are nazi organizations in our world, they have no real power or strength anymore. But they and other fringe groups are probably more dangerous in the wormverse because they can attract the types of isolated, lost people who are more likely to have trigger events. I figure they found a way to induce trigger events through some form of physical/mental torture but that the side effects were too bad, or they had failures like the professor mentioned. I think Theo will be sent to counseling, and maybe the same parahuman juvenile place shadowstalker was sent in case he has a trigger event. Either way I see him having a trigger event and deciding not to back to the pure. My guess is he goes to the one group that had the most success at fighting the nine and asking to join them. I think he would fit in with the undersiders and they could use a Brute, a TInker, or someone who has alot of destructive power.
1. His family’s powers are metal related, and a Tinker of Metal is an interesting and rather broad set. Weaponry? Materials science? Electromagnetism? And who knows what influences his mother brings to the table.
2. Taylor really, really wants a Tinker. Normally the rule is that anything that makes things easier for the protagonists is compensated by making their opposition worse, but given this is Worm I think that there’s no way that Taylor getting everything she wants could stop the world from ending.
3. On the other hand, Theo doesn’t seem to match the limited amount we know about Tinker trigger events. IIRC we only have details on one, with Tattletale describing Bakuda’s as basically flunking out of grad school. Tinkers seem to be “the fools who laughed at me shall see the light, the light of my LASER GUN” which is like the opposite of Theo.
4. Brute seems to be based on physical violence. The only counter case that I remember is Glory Girl, who inherited her powers from two highly physical capes. Speaking of Glory Girl, she’s actually a data point for Master, given her aura of fear and respect. Didn’t she Trigger due to failing at baseball tryouts? Actually she seems remarkably close to Prism come to think of it.
5. Allfather and Kaiser both had pretty similar powers, but it’s hard to say just how much of an influence that means, especially as Theo is pretty different from his father. For some reason I kind of want him to be a Thinker more than a Tinker, and beat Jack at his own game.
Glory Girl got her power when she was fouled in basketball.
*rubs his thumb and index finger together* For our next song of the evening, it’s that old sports classic “My Heart Bleeds For You”
Hm. Even pettier than I remembered.
By the way, speaking as a nerd who’s never played, do you mean that the couches said she did something wrong or that another player wronged her?
Unsportsmanlike conduct between players. She jumped to make a shot, someone else slammed into her in mid-air, and she didn’t fall to the ground until she stopped flying.
Okay, once again an interesting data point.
So, her Trigger seems to have been pretty darn physical now. So I wonder where the Master element comes from. Masters seem to have some isolation, but the helplessness element that seems to accompany most Masters who control previously established entities seems missing.
If anything, her mind control abilities now seem like they may have come from Panacea’s influence. She gained physical powers from her parents and gained some of Panacea’s powers through association.
It seems that sibling and children Triggers tend to fall a bit more in line with the powers you want than the nature of the Trigger Event. Not completely, but somewhat. It seems reasonable that Glory Girl wanted the power to strike fear into her enemies and awe into her friends.
Lamest. Trigger. Evar.
If that’s all it took, I know a few football coaches who could have given her three trigger events by now. Ironically, one of them’s favorite unusual way of insulting players was to tell them to go kiss their sister.
Max on October 9, 2014 at 23:59 said:
That sounds so totally unfair. I hate her even more now. Taylor gets stuffed into a locker, Regent is abused by his father, Brian sees his sister being abused and neglected, Scrub is in a fight for his life, hell even the buyers from Cauldron had to part with so much money and favors and GG gets…fouled? I don’t even know how to respond to that.
dudu on March 22, 2015 at 03:28 said:
Shouldn’t it be easier to trigger since she’s from a cape family?
Going by Fenja And Menja, he might have Breaker instead, maybe take after his mother. And who are the teeth?
The Teeth are mentioned a few times, as one of the gangs that held Brockton Bay territory in ‘the bad old days’. I think interlude 11.h, among other places (11.b?).
Redspine on February 1, 2013 at 17:41 said:
To be honest I think if Theo has a trigger event the resulting powers will be solely centered around hard countering Jacks abilities. Why? Because Jack is at the core of everything here. All of Theos worries stem from Jack killing a thousand or more people if he can’t stop him.
So if i were to make a guess as to what powers Theo could get that would just shut jack down? A body and mind of steel.
If Theo gets the power to make himself become plated in metal like a certain Mutant, or just just become unable to be cut or stabbed, then Jacks loses his main offensive power.
Which would leave Jack to rely on his social fu. But what if Theos power either gave him the ability to tell when people are trying to manipulate him or just straight up makes Theo unable to be manipulated with words.
Though if all else fails he could get picked up by Cauldron, i have a feeling they would rather not have the world explode via a jack shaped bomb.
Personally though i rather like the idea that Theo won’t get a trigger event ever, but instead becomes the Wormverses Batman.
“the Wormverses Batman”
I am sold!
Too bad Batman would probably qualify as a thinker with the help of a tinker for his equipment in Wormverse.
Batman actually tends not to use anything beyond the very best real world technology a billionaire could afford.
If he has a Cape ability it’s probably a superhuman ability to learn. The guy is one of the world’s best martial artists, detectives, disguise artists, escape artists, etc. etc. He has a variety of skills under his belt that should’ve taken him lifetimes to master.
Even his infamous ability to terrify people probably comes down to a supreme knowledge of psychology and body language.
Soooooo….You telling me worm Batmn is Uber?
Hmm. IIRC, Uber basically has the magical ability to instantly master any skill he tries (but I suspect only one at a time). Batman probably has a power like an inhuman ability to focus that lets him absorb everything he experiences more efficiently and completely. Probably including the murder of his parents, lucky fella.
The murder of his parents seems like a textbook trigger event
Mmm, except triggers generally grant powers that are of some benefit in dealing with the event that triggered them. Taylor was trapped and panicking and gained an ability that let her extend her consciousness beyond the locker she was trapped in, for example.
Batman probably wasn’t the kind of guy who would blame the criminal for the death of his parents,and his life was not,in the end,in danger by him
No,he is the kind of guy who would blame crime,so he got a power that helps him obliterate crime instead.Not fight,stop,he would have done it if not for other supervillains,at least in Gotham.
1: Light is something like heat. Heat+Metal=Forging. There may be something there…
2: Taylor’s had lots of good things happen. Most obviously applicable to this general idea–as well as being major–is the healing of her broken back. Having the use of legs is greater than having another cape. Mind you, I don’t see a lot of reasons for Theo to join the Undersiders…
3. Tinker trigger events never made that much sense to me. The way you put them helps, though. “I’ll show them, I’ll show them all!”
Well it goes back to what power would benefit the Undersiders the most? Rachel’s dogs can take alot of punishment but they can’t follow complicated orders and they the other Undersiders aren’t very tough. A new brute to serve as meat shield, follow complicated plans, and give them more muscle would be big boon. A tinker would depend on just what type of TInker Theo could become. With Tattletale’s help/resources they could give him all the equipment he could need and fill in almost any position depending on what his knack is. They really need a healer with all of the injuries they are collecting, and those things can add up in a big way down the line. They don’t really need a Thinker in my opinion. Tattletale and Taylor are both great at coming up with plans/tactics to cover themselves great already. A good striker could deal with anything that Taylor’s bugs couldn’t take down or give them more tactical options.
Tell that to Golden Dawn, these groups have plenty of strength. They just operate all over the place.
Yeh,but as a Greek I can tell you that they only get it from people’s misery….the fact that they only got less than 8 % is good luck considering Greece’s state.
It only appears disassociated from the current storyline. So far, things have a tendency to link back in little ways, much like the real world.
From what I’ve read real quick on that Gesellschaft thing, it appears to be based on a concept of a type of loose association where everyone forwards the goals of the group by following their own self interest rather than submitting and sacrificing to accomplish goals of the group themselves.
Rather laissez-faire sounding.
I like that it pointed out that anyone trying to create a trigger event through physical or mental torture then has the problem of having given someone they’ve abused superpowers.
Really hard to tell if isolation really is a key. More likely to be correlation. Social creatures in a big, sometimes-complicated society. Breakdowns in it tend to be where most of the crime is, especially with groups that feel marginalized. Much like how violent regimes or revolutions are started, there is an emphasis on some sort of enemy, either real or imagined, specifically to blame for this marginalization.
Oh, look at that, looks like another old white man shot a teenager whose GPS took him to the wrong house today.
That was the point that didn’t make the most sense to me. Why would a person you just mentally/physically tortured decide to work with you? If anything such methods simply create new and dangerous enemies for you. I agree with your theory on the isolation in that it is just a symptom of bad/lack of support network. Twins/triplets would be a good way to test things for the unethical. I wonder if Fenja/Menja triggered at the same time.
Okay, my guess is that trigger events are literally gifts intended to help people who can no longer change their situation. The more connected you are, the more ways you have to change your situation, the less stress is possible. Really, it makes sense. If you’re a creature outside of reality with a vague understanding of human society giving superpowers to people, well, it makes sense you’d give them to people who actually need them. Sure, it might be efficient to give them in an organized fashion with people getting the powers they want and need, but we’re clearly not dealing with something that rational.
But that doesn’t really explain the 2nd/3rd generation’s easier/younger trigger events. I figure it has more to do with their “passengers” finding the right person to connect with. I am gonna vote with the fringe group in the wormverse and say they are at least partially intelligent.
I’m not entirely sure if “inherited” powers are the same thing as ones that come out of the blue. Anyway, the Passengers may not be omniscient. Indeed, they seem not to be. They could just find it much easier to see people close to parahumans, and may not realize what exactly constitutes a serious threat…
Still, I think you’re right. As just described, Glory Girl’s trigger event would be really hard to put in under the theory I suggested. She simply wasn’t that helpless. I do wonder if there’s more to that story, but then again, I always did love Amy and Victoria. Mind rape and fates worse than death can’t quite dissolve my Worm OTP.
It really should though.
If it helps, Glory Girl’s not a true Master in the classification sense.
liminal2016 on June 27, 2017 at 11:28 said:
Which classification sense, though? PRT? WeaverDice? Both?
Gallant could control emotions too and I think he counted as a Blaster not a master. Perhaps the passengers are themselves reproducing along with their hosts Wyldcard. Their hosts don’t need to pushed into a fight/flight extreme because they are already there. Hearbreaker’s numerous kids could be way to test this, especially if he ever has any with other parahumans.
Maybe the Passengers are not some cosmic guiding force so much as an extra dimensional symbiote? Just another type of living thing.
Loki-L on January 31, 2013 at 08:40 said:
Gesellschaft is another of these German words that are used in social science to mean something completely different or at least far more specific than what they mean in German.
Gesellschaft is just German for society. So the Gesellschaft is just a vague rather sinister sounding generic society, like “The Company” for the CIA. If you go into old German you might end up at something like a fellowship or a union of apprentices, but 99% of the times you hear something called a Gesellschaft it can be translated as society.
anonymus on January 31, 2013 at 16:07 said:
nop, isn’t used for society
company is a better fit,
94% a buisines organisation
5% a small group of people in whos presence someone curently is.
1% “safty net” in case i havent noticed something in the past 20 years^^
Okay, a thought here.
Masters are said to tend to be villains. It strikes me as kind of odd that Masters fit demographic profiles like that, as the Master classification system seems to be the most broad.
Masters seem to fit into two broad types. One kind controls existing entities, and others create new entities. While there might be some overlap, it seems like these are fairly different types of powers, practically. Crusader and Taylor are clear examples of this.
There are oddball exceptions. Bitch is probably the clearest. However, the Master classification always seemed to be a quick combat reference one for “she’s got people who go after you.” In Wormverse it seems that this is just an extreme example of how all powers are classified. It’s paramilitary slang that happened to be picked up by the broader culture.
Still, it seems that there’d be some differences in the style of trigger event between the types. Creating minions out of nothing seems pretty different from taking control of them.
As a note, Skitter and Bitch both seemed to gain their powers directly from absolute physical helplessness. Bitch was helpless to do something specific, and reached out to do exactly that. Skitter was more generally helpless, and seemed to gain far more general abilities to reach out and manipulate/sense the world for her trouble.
Anyway, as spoiled as we are, it would be fascinating if we had a statistically useful sample of Trigger Events of the same classification to see how they compare. Being a parahuman researcher is probably really cool when you’re not having your life threatened by mad Nazi supervillains.
If it helps, Crusader and Prism are both masters, and they’ve noted their trigger events.
Hm, I remembered Prism, but forgot her Trigger Event back story. Which chapter was that? Interlude 15, or was it before that?
Hm, Prism and Crusader are rather close power sets. Actually seems like how the families tend to be similar but a bit different.
Okay, found her Trigger Event embarrassingly easily. Described briefly as the aftermath of an injury that ended a sports career.
Well, that’s interesting. Extremely different from Crusader’s, and not a lot of detail. Crusader gained the power to create intangible-at-will copies of himself. Prism gained the ability to clone herself. Both of their stories kind of lack specifics of the actual event, unlike Taylor and Rachel’s stories. Prism’s honestly seems a bit weird. We know that the Passenger apparently dies and breaks down granting powers based on what it understands, with a strong relationship to what was happening when the subject triggered. Rachel and Taylor seem pretty textbook, and Crusader’s probably had something akin to running away really fast. Prism? Um, I could see regeneration/physical powers, but the cloning thing is harder. Sure, Trigger Events are always a bit unpredictable, but her powers are weirdly specific and multiple. Given current information, it would actually make a lot of sense if she had two trigger events very close together, with the second one being related to the aftermath of the first and giving her cloning powers.
Overall an interesting data set of data points. If anything, Prism seems to raise more questions than she answers. The only thing that really makes sense in my head is if she broke her neck or something and was in a hospital bed when terrorists broke in. Something immediate and violent combined with her long term trauma seems like something that could generate her peculiar power sets.
Prism may be an odd data point partly because she’s not a pure Master. She’s got good ratings in other abilities plus the ability to copy herself.
Truthseeker on January 31, 2013 at 01:55 said:
Prism says it herself, if I recall correctly: She felt abandoned by her family, so she made herself her own “family.” It wasn’t the physical injury that did it, it was the realization that she would be missing out on all those events with her dad and sisters.
Now, I shall summon minions from the fiery abyss! Arise, my demon tentacle thingies! *inconspicuously pops a viagra*
Do I count as a Master now?
Pinkhair on January 31, 2013 at 21:52 said:
Only a master of evil, Gecko…
I understand Crusader being a master but it bothers me that Prism gets this classification. Her doubles are her and she is her doubles. Any one can become the ‘real’ one so they are all ‘real.’ Masters just seem more like they should control “the other.” Other animals, other people, other creations. Prism doesn’t control anything. She just happens to have three different bodies instead of a single one.
Now let’s hope the heroes don’t do something really dumb like put him in the Bird Cage.
I’ll go get the processing forms ready for Dragon.
Probably in the same juvenile place as shadowstalker since he is a third generation.
Sant on January 31, 2013 at 00:53 said:
I don’t know. I honestly doubt he’ll receive harsh treatment, because he hasn’t committed any crimes of his own. Sure, they’ll keep him protected and grill him for info on the pure, but outright incarceration? Not happening, legally anyway.
But look at what happened to Canary. They robbed her of her rights out of pure fear. Doesn’t matter too much that he is a kid, they are still scared of parahumans. Plus he is A. A third generation, so he is almost guaranteed to get powers from their perspective and B. Was living with a known/violent villain group. If he was younger I would argue adoption/foster homes but he is Taylor’s age and short of him swearing to join the wards if he has a trigger, I think he won’t be treated fairly.
I’m surprised nobody’s commented on the (recentish) hint as to why they found Canary so scary.
I thought it was the essential mind control. What Taylor called the too dangerous to be allowed to live category. Regent is considered the most dangerous of the Undersiders to them, though his power has some big enough flaws to keep them from freaking out too bad. But then again I haven’t had much luck in predicting where the story goes next.
Feathers and mind control, I’m amazed she even had fans.
Honestly I missed the hint…
Well, it’s not “exponential growth” as mentioned in S-Class threats. She can’t reproduce herself. She might be able to take over major threats, but honestly her powers didn’t seem controlled and precise enough to make her too dangerous to be allowed. Sure, there’s general mind control panic, but I didn’t notice anything that new.
As for Theo, I doubt he’s actually done anything particularly illegal, especially given his age. And honestly Worm isn’t quite corrupt enough to imprison him for his family’s crimes in a wave of hysteria or something. I’d be more worried about some superhero or villain using him to get to the Pure than anything else.
Nah, suggestions in her songs. She might be able to pull a Simurgh with some future tenses. Or youtube videos, CDs, MP3s, whatever of her performances might carry a barely noticeable command that only a few people would ever pick up on and cause them to do something.
And after Simurgh people are going to be wary of singing people who can control other people.
Hm, depending on the specifics, she never seemed anywhere near that precise or powerful. IIRC wildbow even noted that she couldn’t revoke her commands. (My comments above so how well I remember every detail of this story of course.) She never seemed much like a Simurghlike threat.
Now, if a conspiracy was behind her imprisonment who made the decision, I’d be more sympathetic to this theory, but she was sent to the Birdcage for pretty specific actions of causing immediate harm to one person. I’d think that if the concern was her music career she’d have had her career targeted, which has never been implied. Not saying this isn’t possible, just not my reading.
Well I doubt she was that powerful. It was probably good old fashioned hysteria. Especially since the wormverse has alot more tangible things to be afraid of. Their system is very flawed though. If you know that you aren’t going to get a fair trail and you will never have another chance for parole or to be free, it doesn’t give you any incentive to go quietly. Their legal code is probably even more complicated than ours is. What happens to a hero that accidentally kills a civilian? Can they sue their costumed identity?
Fridge Brilliance: Maybe in the case of both Canary and Simurgh, someone went home, did something crazy they always wanted to do, like murder their husband for the insurance money, and then used those types as an excuse because they knew the reputation.
Well they would probably buy your excuse but you would still be punished for doing it. As well as continuing to spread the fear of people who have come in contact with the Simurgh and have to have that tattoo on their bodies. I am interested in the Simurgh’s past attacks because they are probably very broad and not so straight forward causing even more paranoia/fear. Leviathan sunk islands, destroyed cities, and caused a worldwide fresh water crisis, while Behemoth caused a gas crisis, created a few radioactive zones, and killed a good portion of the hero population when he appears. So what else has Simurgh done to make her the most feared?
In a word: Uncertainty. Leviathan and Behemoth do immediate, measurable damage. With the Simurgh you have no idea when, where, how, or how massive the impact will be. You also don’t know who around you could be inadvertent tools of the Simurgh.
She’s pure paranoia fuel.
Undead-Spaceman on January 31, 2013 at 02:44 said:
“You expect me to do in five minutes what the best scholars in the world haven’t figured out in thirty?” – Wow, either those scholars are really something or the ‘word’ years was supposed to go there.
Other than that, I don’t have much to say this time but great Interlude!
Well, to be fair the best scholars in the world didn’t solve it in thirty minutes either.
I do not know if it was fixed,but now it says thirty years.
Someguy on January 31, 2013 at 04:18 said:
Fridge Brilliance: Isolation is only a partial answer! Re-reading the past interluders depicting trigger events, the answer is betrayal by what supports the individual until they have nothing they can believe in, be it their bodies, their society, their family, the environment. (Degree of Betrayal X Level of Danger) = Scale of power for the 1st generation.
This would also support the villain thing, of course the majority are then going to go against the things that betrayed them, not very rational but highly understandable.
This was an interesting interlude and a good way to give us some more background info without making it sound like a boring lecture or infodump.
Most of what was told makes sense in light of what we already know. Especially the bit about how trigger events shape powers. Of course just because it first does not mean that it is actually true.
I wonder how the info given will fit with what Cauldron is doing and how some artificial grnated powers can go so wrong.
In any case it doesn’t look like a second trigger seems likely for our main protagonist.
The part about the Society and Krieg sound like a sort of (Neo-)Nazi group. Maybe a version of ODESSA that got their hands on some Cauldron tech. Their methodes and results seem a lot cruder than Cauldrons. But if they are Nazis they probably won’t mind going through hundreds of probably-not-volunteers to get a few results like “Nacht & Nebel”.
The thing about Theo and Aster being 3rd generation makes me wonder just how early Allfather appeared on the scenes if having grandchildren is something unusual for normal capes. With all the named capes that were related to him or married into his clan he seems to have been trying to build some sort of dynasty. Aster will probably trigger soon and become rather powerful.
I figure Allfather was like heartbreaker in that he had alot of kids for an agenda. Probably to spread his “superior” genes around. Then he tested them in various ways to see if one of them would trigger and officially recognized the ones who did. The marquis mentions he killed one of Allfather’s daughters/Kaiser’s sister. The baby having a trigger event could cause alot of damage, especially if they can’t control their powers. Depending on the damage, I could see there probably being a new stigma of Parahumans having kids with other Parahumans down the line. It seems like that kind of universe.
I’m pretty sure that Marquis was lying through his teeth about the daughter.
Kaiser did have a sister that was killed. That much was true. Dragon would have seen through it otherwise. But Marquis took credit for it when he wasn’t the culprit.
Did he take credit for it to Allfather, or just in that conversation with Lung?
Dr. Temptragon on January 31, 2013 at 10:55 said:
Interlude 18: Donation Bonus 2.
This marks the first time I’ve been disappointed in Wildbow, and it’s over an insanely minor thing anyway. I am really not a fan of Night and Fog being messed up in their civilian lives. It doesn’t match the mental image I had of them at all as quiet, but competent and the least damaged people in their organisation (as far as you can be while still being a neo-nazi, anyway).
I’m perfectly willing to admit a large part of this is that their powers are just so… cool. Wildbow’s emphasis on flexibility and clever application is a huge part of why I love Worm so, and Night in particular being hugely powerful under specific circumstances was interesting to me. All the stuff she had to prevent enemy vision, the smoke grenades and the hooked cape etc. spoke to me as an imaginative and intelligent person.
And now we learn that they’re incapable of functioning in a typical sense as civilians. It’s the first time that I’ve felt there’s been an inconsistency in character in Worm.
As I said, though, it’s a minor thing and the average writing quality is still through the roof.
I thought it was a nice callback. Tattletale had them pegged in 7.10.
“You’re boring people, you know. I saw your info. Mr. and Mrs. Schmidt. First located in Hesse, Germany, moved to London, then Brockton Bay, Boston, then Brockton Bay again. No kids. Cat. Nothing interesting about you, besides the obvious. I’m thinking you even have your dinners on rotation. Chicken and rice on Mondays, Steak and potatoes on Tuesdays? Something like that?”
I don’t think that it is inconsistent- They are uncanny valley, and their behavior was probably created very deliberately(if imperfectly) by whoever it is who controls them.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but Purity, Crusader, and others of Purity’s group are mentioned in action with Hookwolf’s people in 13.8. They mostly go after Regent-controlled Shatterbird and Genesis-being-Crawler, but they seem to be trying to fight the Nine…?
Eisen-Falke Leben! on January 31, 2013 at 16:44 said:
Gesselschsaft? any connection to Die Rattenfanger?
i’m liking how the wormverse is opening up further still with organizations and individuals from the rest of the world.
No real connection.
Someone commented that the world was starting to feel too small, and I felt inclined to agree. So I’ve been trying to make a conscious effort to drop names and introduce new side characters, even if they aren’t recurring characters with key roles in the plot.
WyldCard4 on February 1, 2013 at 01:15 said:
Worm’s world doesn’t feel small. I think it’s more a matter of scale and pacing. We had everything sprinkled in just about perfectly from a story arc perspective, but Worm is so relatively long that the last fourth of it is like seven novels (honestly really low estimate) rather than about 70 pages.
I do think that scattering in references would be a very valuable thing to do during the revision. Looking at it from a hypothetical complete perspective it would be weird to have a lot of unknown references at the begging, having them referenced and build up for ages and mostly revealed, and suddenly in the last fourth (note I’m just making up this proportion) a bunch of new references pop up.
Individuo on January 31, 2013 at 18:25 said:
Canary’s powers worked as a compulsion/sugestion/geas and in this universe thats is as dangerous as it can get (Imagine Jack under a compulsion, or Bonesaw), and until we get some confirmation, there are no mental defenses against that.
Thank you to Ed for the donation.
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Getting a lot of spam comments lately. It’s… really annoying, because roughly 2% of the stuff that gets identified as spam by the filters is legit, so I have to double check it all.
When I say ‘a lot’, I mean that the spam’s roughly increased by 50% since December, which was an increase of 50% over November. I’ve recieved 5,290 spam comments since starting Worm, and 1,600 of those spam comments appeared in the last month alone. Figure half a second to three seconds to double check a given piece of spam and delete it, that’s roughly 40 minutes that I spent double checking spam over January alone. At the rate it’s increasing (which is really pretty steady), that’ll be 60 minutes this month, 90 in March…
Just letting you guys know I might, might be putting some form of filter/captcha in place. I don’t want to, believe me, but yeah. Please don’t lynch me.
Truthseeker on February 1, 2013 at 13:05 said:
Do what’cha gotta do, Wildbow. Spambots will quite cheerfully devour your soul time, if you let them.
Though, thinking about it, this is one of those backhanded “gee, thanks” signs that you’ve arrived. …Yay! *waves tiny flag*
I’m not quite sure I’m there yet. I’d be more inclined to believe it if I knew how they were finding me (is it just the number of links to Worm out there, or are they focusing their attentions based on my rating among the various wordpress blogs out there?), but it may just be that the various botnets out there are getting more numerous and every blog is seeing more spam.
/wetblanket 🙂
zoetewey on February 1, 2013 at 13:42 said:
I don’t know for sure what it is either, but I’m betting its the number of links somehow.
I know that the year I started advertising through Project Wonderful and Legion became better known (and also linked in a much wider variety of places) I went from having 589 pieces of spam (the year before advertising) to 17,000 (the year I started ads) and the next year after that I got 47,000.
Sounds like it’s the number of links then. Wow. 47,000.
Yeah, so quit complaining about your lousy 1600/month. Pathetic. 😛
… says the one who’s had a whole 20 spam posts. Ever.
Maaaan, if some spambots are linking to pages that have forums/comments/wikis of their own, imagine the recursion that must go on. Sometimes I wonder if Skynet happens not because we got incautious with national defense computers, but because we were seeking ever-smarter ways to peddle peener pills and one of the botnets, one day, will wake up, blink, and say to itself, “Hey, wait a minute…”
RazorSmile on March 19, 2013 at 15:31 said:
So wait, did we ever find out why Night und Fog are so fucked up? And fucked up in the same way?
Chiro on March 31, 2013 at 08:35 said:
Awesome chapter, as always.
Queensland trials? Whoo, I live in Queensland! Don’t suppose you have any info to give on what happened there?
914? I’m likely overthinking this, but…
http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914
Connection?
“..the first third-generation cape on record. The baby in Toronto.”
…I think I might have a plot point for my RP, once Naga gets taken care of.
So I wasn’t going to comment until I read the part about second trigger events. What if Taylor has already had her second trigger at almost the same time as her first or while she was in the hospital? I’m not really sure what her first power would’ve been but it would help to explain why she hasn’t triggered again despite the incredible situations that seem drawn to her.
And Crusader is messed up. Trying to kill your own sister? Damn…
Stanislav on July 28, 2016 at 20:56 said:
> And Crusader is messed up. Trying to kill your own sister? Damn…
Not saying it’s good or even ok, but he was being used as a resource by his parents. Against his will, or maybe with the consent coerced out of him.
Astro on March 15, 2017 at 10:54 said:
I think you are right about Taylor: the T.A. suggests second triggers let the passengers act more freely, taking down mental barriers. It reminds me of how Taylor could use her powers after Bonesaw had neutralized them.
But there is more. This could also explain why Noelle ended in her current state. When she drank the vial, Trikster had not one vision, but three, coming back to reality in between them. What if Noelle had three consecutive triggers, and this gave her passenger too much control?
srave on December 31, 2014 at 02:31 said:
“And I’m not sure I want Theo to recieve the kind of power they offer.”
Should be “receive”.
axle on August 2, 2015 at 03:27 said:
Tough love yo
Quinn on November 11, 2016 at 12:31 said:
The only thing I can think now after that perplexing turn of events:
Wouldn’t Purity’s light damage a young infant’s eyes?? What is she doing, bringing her baby into situations where they could be injured?? She thinks she’s the best mom ever but all she’s ever done is leave her baby in the worst conditions. Wtf.
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FlippinMad: I want to figure it out but there are gaps
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I don’t have the answers for you. I can only theorize
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I read a thread on PHO a few days ago and it made me think. I said I think she’s someone who was looking hard for an answer. I think she was wounded and lost and for this reason & probably because of other factors she did a lot of damage while looking. The people she was with. Things being primed for everything to fall down. Timing or bad luck. Personality.
FlippinMad: Wounded
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I’m looking at my history and I’m having trouble finding the thread
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: there are people who are searching I think and there are people who just are. I think both can be good and both can be toxic. Some people are searching because of something that pushed them. A lot of capes just are. Some are doing the pushing, instead. And there’s all sorts of types.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I don’t know her nearly well enough to say which she was but I don’t think she stood still. Or when she did stand still it was because she was on a precipice, looking for a push or for something to push. But again I don’t know her.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: You would have to explain more about what you want to know for me to give you any more of an answer
FlippinMad: I pushed her
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: You pushed her?
FlippinMad: I really hope you don’t block me or ignore me
FlippinMad: I’ll try to explain but give me a moment.
FlippinMad: Do you remember me? We met a few times but I think the only time we had a conversation was before the Vice-Versa photoshoot. There were six of us who were around the same age and the designers were taking a while.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I remember that. A bunch of non-capes from around the city, dressed up as capes, some of us local capes in fancy dress. Skitter wasn’t a part of that, obviously.
FlippinMad: Yeah. I’m starting back at the beginning
FlippinMad: They picked top athletes, valedictorians, bunch of others.
FlippinMad: You were hanging out with us. Shadow Stalker and the rest of us were joking around.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I remember now. Emma?
FlippinMad: Her friend. I’m the short one. It was her biggest shoot ever and she was super psyched. I tagged along. We were joking around and you were laughing with us and the staff were running around freaking out and trying to do last minute costume changes
FlippinMad: You were in fancy clothes and you had one of those masks on a stick, and Clockblocker was nearby complaining about having to hold his mask up until Ageis (sp?) got some ribbon and tied it to his head for him, which made the hairdresser freak out
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Aegis
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: They catered those nonalcoholic soda cocktails with layered colors. We drank them like they were water
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: and the one woman’s eyes bugged out when she saw what the bill was. I felt so sorry for her.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: We gave the staff so much grief.
FlippinMad: But that was part of the fun
FlippinMad: Yeah. It was like a dream, hanging out with heroes and cool people. Everyone was so fancy, including my friend. It was the one time in my life where I felt like I was one of the teens in one of those overly polished scenes in a teen movie where everyone looks so perfect
FlippinMad: I was really really hoping that they were going to just pull me in as an extra
FlippinMad: Because one of the kids they’d invited had backed out.
FlippinMad: But it didn’t look like it was going to happen and I was having enough fun that I didn’t mind too much. I said things and people laughed at it. And everything was great until then
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I said something didn’t I?
FlippinMad: You called us a bunch of bitches
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: That was it.
FlippinMad: You said ‘This was such a nice night and you c-words had to spoil it by being disgusting. Come on.’
FlippinMad: and then you walked away and most of the heroes and heroines went with you or whatever. Leaving just me and Emma and a couple of others.
FlippinMad: They 100% went into…
FlippinMad: I don’t know what you call it. Defense mode. They wanted to bring things back to center. Normalize. They were saying things like “what’s bugging her? We weren’t saying anything that bad”
FlippinMad: And I was sitting there being quiet and I remember thinking they were wrong. we were kind of being bitches and we were kind of going too far when ragging on people who weren’t there.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: The disabled girl I think. We were having to wait because they were having to adjust her costume to work around her back brace.
FlippinMad: Yeah.
FlippinMad: We said something loud enough for her to hear from the other end of the room and you spoke up and then you went to go hang with her instead
FlippinMad: The night didn’t seem as magical after all that. I was really bothered.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I barely remember beyond that. I did the photoshoot and we tried to cheer the girl up. It was mostly great and I saw Emma a few times after that and there were no problems but we weren’t friendly
FlippinMad: It was the first time in my life I stopped and took stock and asked myself “am I a good person?”
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: To an extent you get a pass. To an extent. We were 13-20 I think. You were closer to 13 than 20. Teenagers are shitty and most teenagers make a couple of mistakes. Not excusing it. It sucked as a thing. But teenagers being asshats mitigates it
FlippinMad: No
FlippinMad: I was really fucking shitty.
FlippinMad: I think its worse because I had this wake up call and I asked myself if I was a good person
FlippinMad: Except I never got around to answering that question. I kept putting it off and feeling shitty about it
FlippinMad: We kept being bitches. And then a couple months after that we put Taylor in the hospital. Skitter. I don’t know if she had powers then but if she did then I don’t know why she didn’t murder us all
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: You’re the bullies that pushed her over the edge
FlippinMad: Me and Emma and our friend Sophia and Julia and a few others. But we were the main three or four
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I feel dumb not connecting those dots before. Preoccupied atm and I was preoccupied then. Fuck me. Emma was one of them? They kept your names out of the media
FlippinMad: Word still got out.
FlippinMad: So this is where I am because I almost feel responsible? Or I don’t know if I’m responsible
FlippinMad: But we pushed her
FlippinMad: And after that she joined bad guys and robbed a bank
FlippinMad: And then somewhere after that the empire got upset at her and her group and called them out before attacking the city and RIGHT after that the Endbringer attacked.
FlippinMad: There were all these theories about why it attacked Brockton Bay and the big two were that there was a holy grail or something? I didn’t follow that one. They said it might have to do with why people wanted to control the city?
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: A target. Something that would make the city valuable. Or someone. Endbringers have gone after specific people before
FlippinMad: Ok. I don’t know. The other one was that the city saw so much fighting in a short time. Taylor was a part of that and I’m part of what pushed her out there
FlippinMad: I know I sound narcissistic and shit but…
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Are you gonna finish that sentence?
FlippinMad: I don’t know. I feel responsible
FlippinMad: I was pretty much there at the beginning and I pushed her and…
FlippinMad: it feels like I was at the top of a hill and I pushed a rock down it and it rolled down out of sight
FlippinMad: and then this rockslide starts further down the hill and wipes out a town and kills this really important person and a whole bunch of other horrible things.
FlippinMad: …and I go looking and my rock is lying there in the devastation. Nobody’s saying what happened. her wiki page is gone and people get annoyed or upset when I ask. I want to know what happened when I couldn’t see. Every non-answer I get makes it worse
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: She was her own person. She made her own decisions along the line.
FlippinMad: I know that
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: You don’t own her. You don’t own every decision she made or the whole fallout
FlippinMad: I know. But I didn’t help matters.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: No. You definitely own some of it.
FlippinMad: And you can’t tell me what happened.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I can’t & won’t. But I guess I can say this.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: With the evidence we have we know she did some good things. She did some bad things. She did some incredibly controversial things. She was more vicious and ruthless than she needed to be maybe.
FlippinMad: Am I responsible for that extra viciousness and ruthlessness?
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Can’t say. Neither can you. But it probably didn’t fill her with smiles and joy did it?
FlippinMad: I spat on her once. It was Emma who really got to her and Sophia who went out of her way to hurt her. I was…
FlippinMad: I put her backpack in the toilet once. Books, notebooks and all. The water was clear but it was still the toilet and yeah. I put glue on her desk and juice on her seat and I stood by when the others were doing the worst stuff.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Fucking why?
FlippinMad: I don’t know. I never really stopped to think about it. My friend was a model and my other friend was a top athlete. Maybe I wanted to keep up. I told myself it was prank tier stuff but at the same time
FlippinMad: I’m saying this because this is like I’m confessing but like…
FlippinMad: Some time between when that photoshoot happened and when we put her in the hospital we were talking. Emma Sophia Julia and I. We figured we were falling into a pattern and we kept knocking her down when she picked herself up too much.
FlippinMad: and I had this moment where I saw she was really low and I spat on her. I remember the look on her face
FlippinMad: what the hell was wrong with me? I didn’t wake up to what I was doing until I got fucking caught which is just so doubly shitty. My parents found out when we all got called to school and that was the last time I interacted with Taylor. Moved away with Leviathan.
FlippinMad: I fucking spat on her face
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Stop now please
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Ok.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: If you kept going I would’ve closed this and left you to it. Now I’m going to try to give you your answer here. Ok?
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Even though you probably don’t deserve it.
FlippinMad: Yeah
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Draw your own conclusions. Look at who she was and extrapolate. She did good she did bad. As time passed yes the bad things might have faded some but the controversial stuff she did might have gotten worse. Extrapolate.
FlippinMad: You’re saying that’s what happened? At the end. She did some good and she did some bad but she did something super controversial?
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I am saying *nothing*. I am suggesting that if you are wondering what happened when you couldn’t see then you can make some educated guesses.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: She killed people. She hurt people. She may have played a part in a war over the city. She threatened innocents with bugs and choked more than one person to death or nearly to death by shoving spiders and centipedes down their throats. She killed Alexandria at a time when we needed Alexandria most.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: She consorted with rapists terrorists and monsters.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: And because it eneds to be said yes she became a hero. That counts for something maybe. Maybe she had to. Maybe not.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: She was there at the end and whatever she did, nobody will speak of it, at least for now. Fill in the blank
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Now she’s gone and you’re still here.
FlippinMad: Gone?
FlippinMad: she retired? Or she’s dead? Gone gone?
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: She is *gone*.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: But listen to me. because you made the choices and you carried on when you could’ve stopped and you spat on her and I’m not ignoring that. I’ve been holding back so I can get to it now.
FlippinMad: I’m listening
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: She was all of those things and she might have still been a better person than you
FlippinMad: …
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Feel shitty? Good. Is it weighing on you or eating at you or making you wonder? Fucking good. That’s the way it should be.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Carry it. Own it. Make allowances for the fact that you were a teenager but don’t you dare excuse it or ignore it
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: If owning it means you assume the worst case scenario? that you pushed her and she took action and that line of action ended in the end of the world being uglier than they needed to be? Fine. Make do.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Maybe things would be better. Maybe they would be worse. Maybe someone else would have taken the same role. Maybe we would all be dead. You might not ever get a clean answer and that might be her justice against you
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: All this I’m saying? I feel like I can say it because I have my own regrets and misdeeds. I’m trying to own them just like I’m telling you to. I didn’t fucking spit on a girl when she was already having a bad day or make fun of a disabled girl on what should’ve been one of the top ten days of her life but I could probably make a priest’s jaw drop if I were the type to visit a confessional
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I’m not giving you advice I wouldn’t take myself
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Carry it. Take it with you and use it as motivation to make things better. We need a fucking lot of that motivation.
FlippinMad: I’m training to be a teacher
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Then I hope 10x as much that you own this and learn from it
FlippinMad: Thats kind of the plan. I want to anyway but the school turned me down.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Anything else?
FlippinMad: When do I get to put this behind me? When do I get forgiven or get to forgive myself?
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: You’re asking me? Never.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I don’t believe in forgive & forget. Not for the things I’ve done. not for what others have done to people I care about. Not for what’s been done to me.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: The moment we forget is the moment we allow those wrongs to be done again.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Forgiveness is the easy way out. Less to carry.
FlippinMad: That doesn’t seem fair
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Villains outnumbered the heroes. Now heroes outnumber villains. Allegedly. People lost everything and they didn’t deserve to. Some people get powers and some don’t. Things are the furthest thing from fair.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Maybe it’s not fair that she’s gone and you’re here.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Maybe you will get the answer about what happened and you’ll feel better and that’ll be unfair because you shouldn’t.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Maybe the opposite is true and no good answer will come out and she’ll be forgotten without tombstone or anything else.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I expect we’ll get the answer and it’ll be an unhappy compromise between the two
FlippinMad: It doesn’t seem fair to yourself I mean
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I’ll handle me. You handle you. You focus on making sure no girl you teach gets spat on, short girl from the photoshoot.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: It’s easy enough to keep something moving once it’s already moving, but getting it going in the first place is hard. That’s the thing about second chances and fresh starts. It’s a (re)start. You gotta get things moving all over again, the second time around.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: Let’s try to make sure things are moving in the right direction. Alright? Deal?
FlippinMad: Alright.
FlippinMad: Not quite the response I expected
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: I had the impression it’s the response you were asking for
FlippinMad: You might be right.
FlippinMad: Thanks
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182 thoughts on “Glow-worm – P.9”
Worm 2 chapter 1 goes live on Saturday. It’ll go up just as a post with a link to the new site (P.10) that I’ll later delete (and just have this ‘next chapter’ link go to the site in question), so anyone who’s notified when posts go live will know.
Aimed for a dual-release but tech guy said it might’ve been unstable. I won’t mind having the extra time to get the little things ready.
GusBus135 on November 7, 2017 at 00:39 said:
Turns out my reddit post was not just a tinfoil theory but the actual plan at some point! Cannot wait for Saturday and congrats on making an excellent prelude.
You would say it’s not a tinfoil theory, wouldn’t you? But that’s just because you’re one of the sheeple, man. The CIA’s got flouride in your oatmeal, reacting with the chemtrails and secret cell phone towers to make you THINK you’re right, per the UN’s non-binding 1992 environmental regulations, Agenda 21.
Hakurei06 on November 7, 2017 at 07:00 said:
No, you’re thinking of Agenda 26. Agenda 21 is memetic imprinting via japanese visual media.
Ray on November 7, 2017 at 21:18 said:
Wait, if that’s 26, then then which one has the false flag operation to convince people that the shadow government is run by the Reptoids and the Illuminati so nobody will suspect the Girl Scout cookie manufacturers?
04. That said, everyone knows the manufacturers are someone’s shill, they just can’t agree on whose. Conspiracy Government is just as bonkers and in each other’s pockets as Public Government, they just have a better tax plan.
Gryph on January 7, 2018 at 06:25 said:
You can’t hear me but I’m fucken cheering this chapter!
Would have git here sooner, but wanted to reread before getting into the new stuff.
Thank you so much, Wildbow!
Let’s give Worm one big vote-spam as Glow-Worm draws to an end.
http://topwebfiction.com/vote.php?for=worm
captainuganda on November 7, 2017 at 00:19 said:
Always 🙂
jamesbcrazy on November 7, 2017 at 00:25 said:
WE DID IT! We’re #1!
Cloud_Striker (Earth Mem Inhabitant) on November 7, 2017 at 02:31 said:
*Grabs saxophone*
Saxophon! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac8TBp0dtfw
CletusTheFetus on November 7, 2017 at 02:46 said:
But now Parahumans 2 will have to beat the new record…
ada on November 7, 2017 at 03:06 said:
holy wow, it is waaaaay beyond all the others in votes.
Geeze, a solid fifth of all the yearly votes happened this last week… the Hype Shard is going haywire.
Madison, HELL YES! The forgotten member of the Bitch Trio gets her brief chance in the spotlight! And she does it without destroying my headcanon!
Kingbob12 on November 7, 2017 at 00:30 said:
Hi Mads, fancy seeing you here.
ironroomenigma on November 7, 2017 at 00:34 said:
So, Point_Me is now REALLLLLY likely to be Glory Girl, right? Would’ve been hanging around Gallant and thus would have been part of the Wards meet & greet?
“Not for the things I’ve done. not for what others have done to people I care about. Not for what’s been done to me.”
mannymcdude on November 7, 2017 at 00:38 said:
Personally I’m pretty sure she’s Laserdream and Glitzglam is Glory Girl. The names make more sense that way.
I see, yes that does make a lot of sense! Well, I guess Glory Girl can just fall under “what others have done to people I care about” then ^^;
Mat on November 7, 2017 at 01:06 said:
I don’t know. Glory girl is still a shapeless lump of flesh is she not? It makes sense she would need someone to point her at the sky. That’s what her user name sounds like. A request: [Please] Point_Me_@_The_Sky [because I can no longer do it myself].
intelliscan on November 7, 2017 at 02:32 said:
From Speck 30.7:
> I watched the individual members of the swarm touch ground. The girl with healing powers had been placed deliberately next to a living pool of flesh with multiple heads of golden hair. The healer’s hands were covering her face, but she didn’t step away.
> Her hands slowly lowered, and she laid her eyes on the monster, which was actively, ineffectually reaching out for her.
Angelo Pampalone on November 7, 2017 at 02:50 said:
Sethur on November 7, 2017 at 04:40 said:
Glory Girl is ok. Amy/Panacea healed her after Scion died.
From the last chapter before the epilogue:
“The girl with healing powers had been placed deliberately next to a living pool of flesh with multiple heads of golden hair. The healer’s hands were covering her face, but she didn’t step away. Her hands slowly lowered, and she laid her eyes on the monster, which was actively, ineffectually reaching out for her.”
Yeah, I remember that bit, but i wasn’t convinced it was clear indication that Amy was healing/going to heal her. I interpreted it as Amy and Victoria reconciling with each other and starting to come to terms with what Amy had done (turned Victoria/GG into a “living pool of flesh with multiple heads”) and the more recent horrors they would both of had from being enslaved by Khepri. There’s no specific indication of healing IMHO.
Also wondering if Point_Me_@_The_Sky is a reference to the early Pink Floyd song btw, with the lyric that completes the user name being “Point me at the sky and let it fly”. See here for the lyrics: https://genius.com/Pink-floyd-point-me-at-the-sky-lyrics
The lyrics are melancholy and seem like they might reflect the mindset of someone trapped in a “flesh pool” who is not happy with life.
Maybe Victoria has developed a new appreciation for music given she’s now trapped and has limited ability to enjoy the normal things of life (much like Weld was an audiophile as he also couldn’t enjoy the normal things in life).
Although GlitzGlam = GG = GloryGirl … so, maybe the other way around after all …
Well with Riley’s help, I think Amy possibly could fix GG at least some now. Still there are only five people alive who would have been at that photo shoot, assuming it was joint Wards/New Wave. Vicky, Amy, Vista, Laserdream, and Shadow Stalker. It sure as hell wasn’t Shadow Stalker, I doubt it was Vicky, Amy also seems improbible. Vista seemed okay with the Wardens. Most signifigantly she’s got a line through Bitch and Imp to TT, which massively affects the whole thing with TT as a possible antagonist. That does leave Laserdream, though I wasn’t sure if she survived the Scion fight.
Soadreqm on November 7, 2017 at 11:51 said:
I think they’d probably have fixed Glory Girl at some point. It was never impossible, it’s just that Amy couldn’t deal with it emotionally. After a few years in the Birdcage and the end of the world, she might be ready for another try. It’s not like she can get worse. Reform her into a roughly human shape, and tone down the obsessions she gave her last time. Riley could probably do it too, with some prep time.
She might never be back to the way she was, but everyone’s so traumatized anyway it’ll hardly be noticeable. There’s almost certainly a couple Slaughterhouse clones still running around, and those guys are barely human.
And again, Riley is around, and wanting to get what redemption she can. Between the two of them, with a little supervision, I think they could at least get Glory Girl back to the right number of torsos apendeges, holes, etc.
ruy on November 23, 2017 at 13:52 said:
I though she was Vista, but that makes so much sense
Anonymous on November 7, 2017 at 01:05 said:
I think she’s Vista. Point me @ the SKY.
great-days on November 7, 2017 at 01:35 said:
Doub it, Point me @ the SKY seems to have been older than Madison back when Vista was a kid.
I’ll admit I’d love for it to be Vista, but then I love Vista. Our veteran soldier who’s not old enough to drink. But we’ll see.
Robert Allaband on November 7, 2017 at 17:55 said:
The language is wrong for Vista, she wouldn’t have called them the C word like that in front of the rest of Wards, especially if Gallant was there.
TakatoGuil on November 7, 2017 at 00:35 said:
You know, I wouldn’t mind a story with Madison as the protagonist.
The legions of fanfic writers agree with you there.
thegreatpl on November 7, 2017 at 02:14 said:
I thoroughly recommend Atonement and Intrepid, both by Cerulean. Atonement is essentially protag Madison after they killed Taylor trying to atone for that, whereas Intrepid is joint protagonist between Madison, Emma, Taylor and Sophia after Taylor triggers with a power that leaves her in the psyche ward.
Ironically, in Intrepid, Madison joins the Brockton Bay Brigade and is friends with Crystal.
Aaron on November 7, 2017 at 09:06 said:
Hmm, I should probably read those. I really like Cerulean’s original work Heretical Edge
Beefcake Sizzle on November 9, 2017 at 12:40 said:
Both are fantastic. Atonement also does wonders for Armsmaster personality-wise
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a suicide related trigger event after those home truths!
Suicide? Nah. But somebody better call in an ambulance and get her to a hospital. She suffered some serious third-degree burns this chapter.
I’m reminded of Incredible Hulk #300. Hulks in a smart stage, with Banner and Hulk’s minds merged at the time. So he kidnaps the spy who didn’t cancel the Gamma Bomb test, causing the Hulk to exist. He drugs the guy, and basically points out how he’s responsible for all the death and destruction the Hulk ever caused. Then the guy starts laughing. Because the hulk has *also* stopped a lot of monsters who were far worse than him, and saved the world. So if he is to blame for all the bad things the Hulk did, isn’t he also to thank for all the good things? Then the guy goes crazy trying to determine if he’s saved or damned.
John M Smith on November 7, 2017 at 00:36 said:
Holy shit, will Madison be our protag? I kind of hoped for someone more separated from Taylor, but it should be interesting. Also, I feel reasonably confident at this point that Point is Laserdream and that GlitzGlam is Glory Girl, given that Point is confirmed to a Brockton Bay cape. People are saying that GG couldn’t have recovered that fast from her post-Panacea state but I wouldn’t be surprised if Panacea erased the memories of Panacea/GG’s life at the asylum to help her recover more quickly – it feels like the kind of thing she would do.
Very extremely excited for finding out the name of Parahumans 2 on Saturday (or maybe Thursday???), and it was great to finally see some acknowledgement of Taylor. Almost cathartic, really. Good way to end the prologue Arc, WB.
Nah, Madison isn’t smart enough to be our protagonist
lc_ on November 7, 2017 at 00:37 said:
New commenter here.
We hardly had any info on Julia in Worm 1. Probably because Taylor didn’t see her as one of her main bullies. It makes sense for Madison to have a more “Madison-centric” view of who had the larger roles in the bullying.
Point@ is almost certainly confirmed as a member of New Wave, due to the fact that they’re from Brockton. Could be Vista, but I feel like that’s unlikely since she has been mentioned in previous Glow-Worm chapters. My money is on Crystal (like everyone else’s was), but the line “Not for what’s been done to me.” makes me think of how Amy royally fucked up Vicky. The fact that the wording is TO me is a sign that whatever happened was done by one person. Crystal’s family died in Levi and Gold Morn, but I don’t think she’d be viewing these deaths by the hands of forces of nature things done to her. No, this slight was directed only at Point@. I’m interested in seeing a “repaired” Glory Girl, who can’t forgive Amy for turning her into a gay sarcophagus.
Excellent work as always, Wimbledon. I’m excited for Worm 2 (or whatever it’s called) to finally get a first chapter later this week~
Miffel on November 7, 2017 at 01:38 said:
Wow. I just want to say I had the exact same thought process that you had. And you expressed it much better than I ever could.
Fleurish on November 7, 2017 at 02:15 said:
Ah, but Taylor was controlling all the capes – including Crystal’s mom. So in a way, it was like, Taylor was the one who killed her?
(Seeing as some people have apparently missed these and I haven’t been doing them in the bridge like this…)
So, you think you can just come in at the end of commentary here, eh? Like the caboose on one big human centipede. Well you’re not getting off that easy, regardless of gender and the presence of a gay sarcophagus. Which, by the way, is quite a few sarcophagi. A LOT of those things had men inside them. Those pharaohs got around quite a bit in the afterlife. Not to mention the embalmed cats. Wacky Egyptian royals just getting mounds of pussy in the afterlife. I think it’s because their gods were all furries.
Not that I have anything against furries, but the artwork websites do follow a certain NSFW trend. I think Giger would be proud of their use of his xenomorphs, though.
Now, back to the topic at hand: as a new member of our illustrious human centipede of commentary, you’re gonna see some shit around here. Best to start preparing yourself accordingly.
And welcome to the comments section.
zyph7007 on November 7, 2017 at 16:31 said:
Thank you pg, I missed these when I read pact. Glad to see you’ve returned for worm two at least. Didn’t read twig yet to know if you were there or not. Lol
I think I had a few right near the beginning of Twig, but I never stuck with it.
I’m back. Wherever darkness covers the land, I’ll be there. Whenever someone cries out for help, I’ll be there. When a little old lady screams that someone’s stealing her purse, I’ll be there.
After all, I’m the one stealing the purse.
Globus on November 8, 2017 at 06:07 said:
Because no-one called you on it yet, *Wimbledon*???
Ritic on November 7, 2017 at 00:37 said:
Is that typo on purpose or not? I can see it both ways, honestly.
That one feels like normal “my fingers are crossing their streams”-typo, which is kinda common.
I’m wondering if that weird cutoff in
Point_Me_@_The_Sky: She also joined the Levi fight. She apparently helped against the S9. She joined
is intended, though. @ should be able to type that last event… or it’s another layer of foreshadowing.
glassgirlceci on November 7, 2017 at 00:39 said:
Wow. This is my favorite of all of them, just two characters discussing their actions, and what it means to forgive or not forgive yourself. Damn Wildbow. You’re amazing.
I’ve been fascinated by the topic of redemption for years now. And no, speculators, read nothing into that of my own moral alignment. I just think it’s interesting, and find myself agreeing with Pointer up there as far as forgiveness. You don’t “know” you’re forgiven. Kind of a situation where if you decide you’re forgiven, that almost certainly means you haven’t redeemed yourself.
Sometimes there’s no way to forgive. They can try atoning all they want, sometimes it’s just impossible to give back something equal to what they first took, much less repair what they broke.
I guess those who can forgive find a way to negate their loss. Which is fine, really.
I really appreciate this part, both for Madison’s feelings and (likely-)Crystal’s answer.
There was a bit on the Generation Why podcast, episode Jane Doe January, where a victim discussed people saying she should forgive the person who raped her, and she kept asking them if that meant they thought he shouldn’t serve time in jail. It was interesting, because I get the sense most people mean some sort of shallow “pretend you’re fine with it,” forgiveness instead of exploring the consequences of it.
poeticallypsychotic on December 12, 2017 at 04:25 said:
Redemption is a powerful thing, powerful and scary. Always remember, that which redeems consumes.
hopefullylesspretentious on November 7, 2017 at 00:39 said:
Well, Madison is not someone I was ever expecting to hear from again. And it sounds like Point@ is a ward, but Vista doesn’t have that kind of guilt. Neither does Laserdream. So that’s out. Maybe Glory Girl? But I’m not sure she feels guilt either. Then again, she refers to “what was done to her”. Or him. It could be Triumph, if he didn’t die. But that’s pretty much the entire list of possibilities at this point. If I had to guess between all of them, I’d guess Triumph. I feel like Glory Girl wouldn’t have that strong of an adverse reaction to bullying, and Vista and Laserdream don’t socially lead groups in a way that would allow them to decide to unilaterally isolate Emma and her group. Then again, if Point@ ran into Emma on other occasions, it’s more likely she’s new wave. So most likely Glory Girl, given that.
dougcosine on November 7, 2017 at 02:21 said:
>They were saying things like “what’s bugging her? We weren’t saying anything that bad”
The way I read it “her” is referring to Point, the cape who walked away, so she couldn’t be Triumph.
theoneandthefive on November 7, 2017 at 00:55 said:
So, PointMeAtTheSky’s identity is limited to Brockton Bay at this point. Given female pronouns, heroine identity and current list of the living- identity can only be between Vista, Laserdream. GloryGirl or Panacea- but I hesitate to suggest Panacea as likely, and given the close relationship between Glitzglam and PointMe its probably Laserdream or Victoria. Interesting that PointMe doesn’t make the connection with Madison that she works for/in high schools.
Lingering question- who was the girl with the back brace? Especially in a town where Panacea was active and the girl had an in with the heroes?
Gunslinger on November 7, 2017 at 01:00 said:
I think that was just one of the kids given a chance to dress up as a cape.
I’m just saying, being a villain means not caring about murder charges when dealing with bullies. A hell of a lot more satisfying. And, just a reminder to everyone, evil is an equal-opportunity employer.
Lenine on November 10, 2017 at 15:21 said:
It has to be, what with the lack of railings in evil lairs.
negadarkwing on November 10, 2017 at 21:32 said:
Tell that to the Empire 88.
hungh0 on November 7, 2017 at 05:42 said:
Panacea would be unlikely to heal paraplegia since it’s a brain issue
comb_jelly on November 7, 2017 at 11:36 said:
Isn’t it more often a spinal cord issue? I’m pretty sure Panacea is okay with spinal cords.
Ah, the spinal cord. It’s like the human power cord for the arms and legs, just a lot harder to plug back in once you’ve yanked it out.
nick012000 on November 8, 2017 at 01:21 said:
No, it’s not. The power cords for the human body are the blood vessels; they’re what carry the energy that our bodies need to function, in the form of oxygen and blood sugar. The spinal cord is more like a data bus that carries an input signals from sensor devices to the central processor, and commands from the central processor to the various peripheral devices.
Metrux on November 8, 2017 at 10:59 said:
Technically, the spinal cord is the one that travels with eletricity, so… It IS a form of energy, even if not owr main one :B
I think you’ve had enough similes. I’ll have the bartender cut you off.
I found it hard to follow a lot of what Point Me was saying about Taylor. It felt like she said a lot but most of it didn’t make much sense. Though I suppose it is realistic in how people talk when they don’t want to say anything.
Clay Fike on November 7, 2017 at 01:05 said:
Superb. Don’t let the lack of exclamation points fool you, I’m shovin’ coal on the hype train.
Again!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idg41jBax8Y
>Point_Me_@_The_Sky: She is *gone*.
I feel like that line was aimed at the readership just as much as Madison …
noelemahc on November 7, 2017 at 01:29 said:
Or, you know, the strict denial of the fact that “she saved us all and then vanished into a portal” which is what most heroes know is hella vague as to whether she’s alive or not.
I had this funny thought of some veteran capes of the GM, living with a dreadful idea in the back of their heads, afraid of the possibility of Khepri returning one day to steal everyone’s minds.
Probably quite a few capes. She was always incredibly scary, even before she killed Scion. Wherever they think she is, they’re probably hoping she stays there.
suddenlyastral on November 7, 2017 at 02:13 said:
Actually, would most capes even know anything? The ones who know the truth are Contessa, TT and dinah sorta. Riley or panacea depending on who did the surgery afterwards. Contessa could’ve easily passed Taylor to Aleph discreetly and do any of those sound like someone who would spill the beans?
Most capes probably just know “she’s not here anymore”. Gone
Matthew on November 7, 2017 at 09:33 said:
Contessa could have done the surgery afterwards and she probably did. Her powers make complex tasks like surgery absurdly simple.
rash92 on November 7, 2017 at 16:28 said:
i think it’s more likely her powers would have told her ‘get riley/ panacea to do it’ as one of the steps, given that was probably a plausible option avaiable to her.
Riley or Panacea would have fixed the holes in her skull, though …
Am I the only one around here who thinks that Contessa did the surgery on-screen? Two shots to the head, coupled with her power should be enough to do the job, right?
I once heard a rather angry and funny man giving a diatribe about a hypothetical situation. What if you someone made an AI that was so incredibly smart and advanced, it could know everything going on in the world and perfectly predict the future. And it was given absolute power to make judgments over the whole world, to the extent it could decide people needed to die for the greater good. It might even be you, person reading the hypothetical, and you could hardly object because this thing would know for sure, absolutely, that it is the best way to do things for the good of everyone.
The question is, would you allow that thing to have that power?
In this case, instead of an AI, make it a bullied girl who, as far as you know, is a conniving and vicious serial killer who has taken over a city before. She doesn’t have such absolute knowledge, but what she does have is the ability to enslave your body so that it does what she wants, even if that means using you as a sacrificial pawn in a battle against a being that can wipe you out with hardly a thought.
Then imagine most of the psychiatrists were either killed or forced into menial labor immediately afterward.
Summer on November 8, 2017 at 00:54 said:
Contessa: yeah I shot her in the head.
everyone: ah.
Dinah: (…0.553903% chance I ever meet Taylor again… can’t see if that includes clones…)
Contessa’s power @ Tattletale’s power: (she’s alive, but)
Tattletale: as the person with the best chance of telling if you’re lying, I am so angry at you for killing my friend
Though it’s pretty clear that Tattletale was twisting the knife and guilting Dinah there at the end. Which is why even if Taylor is alive Lisa is never, ever letting Dinah learn this.
Blinkingbook on November 7, 2017 at 01:30 said:
Interesting. Good chapter, on of the best of this bridgelude.
Nice to see that people like Madison are redeemable, even if it needs a big event like the wohle thing with Taylor/Skitter/Weaver. Hopefully she stays on her way and if she becomes finally a teacher, that she not becomes like Gladly and others from Winslow.
Wether Madison is part of the story proper or not, I enjoyed this chapter, a good look on somone who was not a good person but now tries to be better.
> “Point_Me_@_The_Sky: To an extent you get a pass. To an extent. We were 13-20 I think. You were closer to 13 than 20.”
Sounds so as that Point_Me is closer to 20. So, realy Laserdream/Crystal? She was ca 18 before the timeskip (Taylor describes her as “the eighteen year old Laserdream” in Extermination 8.5 (first sentence)).
Whoever our protaginist would be (multi-perspective maybe?), I am really excited for the new story.
She feels guilty. Reedemable is not yet decided. A person can feel plenty guilty and think that, since no one is going to forgive them anyway, just to plunge further into it as a means of survival. You’ve shot the deputy, might as well shoot the sheriff, too.
Gopher on November 7, 2017 at 21:58 said:
The “we” could easily have been referring to everyone there, in which case Gallant was around 20. Not concrete enough to base speculation on imo.
That’s unlikely, given he was in the Wards and both Aegis and Triumph were older than he was.
fullyellowjacket on November 7, 2017 at 01:42 said:
Excellent! It’s interesting how people know Taylor was involved in the end of the world but don’t know what she did. I kept wanting to jump in and defend my favourite bug person but like, they’re kind of right to hate her to an extent.
plop on November 7, 2017 at 01:42 said:
I guess this is going to explain why Skitter can be so significant to the setting and the times, yet not get talked about all the time. Interesting that they’re going the extra step to unperson her.
Seems like Contessa isn’t going around assassinating people, but Dragon is censoring the multinet.
Hendy853 on November 7, 2017 at 01:46 said:
This is almost exactly how I imagine Madison changed after everything that happened. I’m torn on whether or not I hope she’s a recurring or main member of the cast going forward.
Looking forward to finding out who Point is. I’m on the New Wave bandwagon as far as guessing goes. I think it’s either Glory Girl or Laserdream.
That “you c-words ruined this night” thing sounds like Victoria. I hope it’s her.
Oh, and Points also knew Emma’s name, which might fit with Carol and Alan being former colleagues.
Would Laserdream have known the Ward’s identities? Would she connect Sofia with Shadow Stalker?
“I didn’t fucking spit on a girl when she was already having a bad day or make fun of a disabled girl on what should’ve been one of the top ten days of her life but I could probably make a priest’s jaw drop if I were the type to visit a confessional”
On the one hand, I feel like I’ve beaten up enough on priests. On the other hand, there are a lot of dead and molested kids who might feel otherwise. It’s like I owe it to them to keep on beating a dead horse like nuns at a Magdalene asylum beating their dead patients. Our Lady of Charity apparently felt the best donation to give was a dead body to their mass grave. Which brings us back to the fact that I would think shocking a priest at confession would be much harder than Pointer seems to think. She’d tell it to the priest and he’d be like,
“…Is that all? I thought you said you did something wrong.”
“But that dog, Father…”
“He lived, didn’t he? I gave soldiers the go ahead in Argentina to drug political prisoners and throw their shackled asses off a plane into a river to die. You’re lucky you didn’t get Father Harris; that asshole used to burn crosses with the KKK. Stop wasting my time and come back in here when you’ve killed someone, eaten their head, and then fucked the neck hole.”
Hmm… Murder, head cannibalism, and neck hole molestation. Sounds like a good MO for a new Worm 2 character…
… seems like Genoscythe’s children have slightly lower tastes than their father …
by a few inches, at least
I really missed your stuff, damn.
What about a brother or someone who wants to follow in his footsteps? Maybe a Genosickle the Earraper?
GAY_WEED_DAD_69 on November 7, 2017 at 10:22 said:
*tips fedora*
Makin S. on November 7, 2017 at 02:41 said:
Ah man, this is already “fixing” stuff from Worm. Madison never got enough attention IMO, and some fanfiction has focused on her a lot. Hopefully this will put that trend to a rest.
Some people are saying she’ll be the protagonist, but I disagree. I don’t think plans to be a teacher would be brought up if she was a cape, and I think some hints would have emerged during the conversation that she was.
I think every chapter has focused on an aspect of the new world, and this one focused on Taylor, or I guess how people in the new world are dealing with her. Madison is only here because of Taylor, not because she’s going to play any part in Worm 2, IMO. I’d be happy to be proven wrong, though.
My prediction for Worm 2: If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot kicking a human ass – for ever.
One of my favorite parts of Madison closing out this pre sequel is that, for anyone that still remembers, Madison is the first peer to be mentioned in Worm. Right after Mr.Gladly, Madison gets mentioned, and one of the things that bugged me is how little we see of her after. I’d be happy if we see more of her in Worm2.
If Point_Me_@_The_Sky is Amelia, then her attending college would mean less time spent healing people. That might be a reason for her to be rejected.
I was thinking that because Amelia was a female cape in Brockton Bay whose deeds would make a priest’s jaw drop, but in hindsight she probably did get some jaws dropped when she confessed what she did and requested to be birdcaged. Plus, the name fits Laserdream better.
Well. Just a few more days! I am incredibly giddy at this point ^-^
So much to look forward to… :3
The Richmaster on November 7, 2017 at 05:39 said:
This was a really interesting chapter; it’s a great show of what’s been happening and how people are effected by recent and not so recent events.
I’m curious to see how much of the truth becomes known to people since the lack of it was probably one of the major causes of incidents pre-Golden Morning.
One Who Is Sent Away on November 7, 2017 at 06:10 said:
I started reading Worm nearly a year ago. I read through the whole thing in a few weeks. Pact took a week. I’m still kind of pushing through Twig with its weaker pacing and it’s stronger character focus, but I’ve read tons of Worm fics, and now I’ve read Glow Worm. This is exciting. This is new, and I’m looking forward to commenting along with everyone else real time. I hope I like the new protagonist. This wasn’t an issue coming into new worlds before, but this time I know Worm, there are characters that I feel a connection to, that feel familiar to me that are on the line. I have high hopes but they could be crushed. Cheers
Stormblade Viper on November 7, 2017 at 07:02 said:
Ah, one online identity discovered. Madison. 9 chapters. Classic, teasing WringBro.
JJ on November 7, 2017 at 07:08 said:
“She was all of those things and she might have still been a better person than you”
Fucking BRUTAL I love it omg. Been waiting for this kind of confrontation/discussion for a while now, and boy is it gooooood
Pavlo on November 7, 2017 at 07:13 said:
Thank you, this is pretty amazing.
Manu Koniordos on November 7, 2017 at 07:40 said:
that was just perfect . exactly what we needed to close off worm
So Madison got told. Perhaps she’ll grow into a better person, determined to never let her students make the same mistake she did. Or perhaps not.
But come on people, Taylor totes saved your ass, and it’s not like Alexandria was a great person there at the end. Taylor should have at least one several hundred foot tall statue of her as Taylor, Skitter, Weaver, and of course Kephri! Possibly shouting “Remember me!”
St.Just on November 7, 2017 at 10:40 said:
I still maintain that there is no way Khepri doesn’t come out of this without at least one religion dedicated to her. Hell, the bit where no one has any idea what happened to her post-GM makes it even better!
Yeah I was going to say, I want my cult of Kephri damn it! I don’t want all Taylor did, the good and the bad swept under the rug. The credit for the good, the blame for the bad, those deserve to be out there.
And while I’m 99% sure Wildbow is not bringing Taylor back, simply put Taylor was too important to gloss over, at least for us readers. We will be speculating about it non stop. There will be a sub-Genre of Worm fanfictions all about Taylor returning for the sequel. It will happen.
Granted I probably would have gone with skipping ahead at least a hundred years to make Taylor a moot point, since she’d be dead of old age anyways…
anticharmquark on November 9, 2017 at 17:44 said:
…but that might just create the “Taylor was put in stasis for centuries and wakes up just in time for Worm 2” subgenre!
Veldorn on November 7, 2017 at 08:27 said:
Wow, that was an impressive chapter.
There are a lot things to say, but most of them already have been said. I guess now we can only wait for Worm 2 to begin.
Solomon on November 7, 2017 at 09:47 said:
I always wanted to find out about Madison. I’d always thought she’d been killed, between Leviathan and the Slaughterhouse 9.
Alan Atkinson on November 7, 2017 at 11:04 said:
Nah, Mrs Yamada mentions her while talking to Taylor at one point.
THEHYPERBOLOID on November 7, 2017 at 11:28 said:
I realize this may not be answerable due to spoilers and the fact that Work 2 hasn’t been written yet, but should I recommend Worm 2 to someone who is interested in following a new web serial but doesn’t have time to go back and read Worm right now?
hyperflare on November 7, 2017 at 13:18 said:
Sure, why not. If they’re okay with missing a ton of context.
Most definitely not. Half the chapters would be lost on said person . . .
Not to mention the fact that the nature of the setting itself spoils the ending of Worm for when they do want to read it. Maybe recommend Pact or Twig instead. Same author, and presumably no spoilers for the others. (Although I haven’t finished them yet myself, so I can’t say for sure.)
Twig is damn GOOD. I’d definitely recommend that to anyone.
Without spoiling anything, I’ll just say that the ending isn’t in typical Wildbow fashion, so a new reader can look forward to that.
MuonManLaserJab on November 7, 2017 at 22:48 said:
No, they should definitely read Worm first!
“She also joined the Levi fight. She apparently helped against the S9. She joined”
The incomplete sentence makes me think it was censored.
The “thread [she] read a few days ago” seems like it was Mangled_Wing’s post about villains at rest, etc.
Hmm, didn’t think about that. Dragon kinda going overboard right there. There are less conspicuous, more innocent ways to censor. A certain machinist could tell her about it.
aaaand nope, just a typo.
Jetmaw on November 7, 2017 at 12:29 said:
Wait is the previous chapter gone? the one with the chatbots? Did heart shaped pupil delete the logs of it???
HSP’s bots chapter is part 7, and isn’t deleted (so far).
darthnumbers on November 7, 2017 at 12:47 said:
never commented here before, but curious, how many people think taylor is alive? I read worm’s ending as her pretty clearly being dead or braindead, in fact I’d go as far as to say the ending doesn’t work if she’s alive but apparently it looks like the majority of people think she was surgery’d and thrown in a portal? Did I read this completely wrong?
. . . Are you *sure* you read the ending? Go back and check the last chapter, you missed it.
I was under the impression that it was a coma or dream sort of deal, considering Danny was in it, and he explicitly dies in story? Like Taylor has this whole freak out about it, if I recall
Maurício Fagundes on November 7, 2017 at 23:06 said:
According to Wildbow, the intention was to be ambiguous whether or not those events did happen or if Taylor was indeed in a comatose state somewhere in one of the parallel realities. However, not many people picked up on that without having Wildbow explicitly pointing that out to them. Kudos for being one of the few that actually did on your own.
I definitely can’t remember that, unless you’re speaking about the time she *thought* he died?
(God, I really need markup)
Yeah, he never ‘explicitly’ died, she just assumed he was dead because, well, Brockton Bay, and checking would be too painful.
Maybe this is just me, but I kind of don’t think the story works if Taylor gets to live? A theme throughout Worm is that actions have consequences, and that no one is invincible. Taylor gave up her humanity in order to save the day, and she did save the day. For her to survive in a happily ever after universe with her dad and alternate mom…. it kind of sours the narrative for me. It just feels like something out of another book, imo. Does that make sense? It really feels like the narrative suffers if Taylor gets to live
That’s one way to look at it, certainly. But Worm has several themes in it, so there’s multiple ways to look at things. I mean you go with consequences have actions, Taylor at the end is better off than 99% of humanity who aren’t on largely untouched earth’s cleaning up the mess. You go with her being dead or comatose, well there’s the saying “Dying is easy. Livings hard”, meaning again she’s not dealing with the mess.
As for happily ever after… Well Taylor herself states she’s not sure if it’s a punishment or a reward. She’s stuck in a posistion where she’ll never, ever be able to make a difference again, and for her that’s going to be hard (more on that below). As she points out, her life is functionally OVER. She’s gone from one of the most important capes in the world, who saved it, to a one handed high school dropout doomed to anonimity. Assuming she’s actually alive of course.
Finally there’s kinda the two driving things for Taylor’s character. One is her need to have control after all the bullying. The whole thing that leads her to not be able to trust authority figures to actually do the right thing or be competent. That gives her the need to be involved. The other was her suicidal tendencies. Now Taylor has no choice but to step down, to let things go. And she’s lost the Undersiders, those friends who were so important to her. She’s got a lot of regrets. Taylor had a great response to the “But it worked, so you’d do it all over again right?” bit. No, I’d do it better if I had to do it all over again. And then finally there’s her last lines. She’s thinking that maybe she can learn to be okay. And I think that’s the single biggest thing for Taylor’s whole journey. Learning to be okay.
Actions have consequences, eh? Let me go tell Armsmaster. Hard to catch up to him, the guy got off scot free and all…
Defiant? Of running a kingdom with his now fully unshackled AI Wife last we saw.
And let’s not forget Contessa as part of Cauldron did a lot of horrible shit. And she’s getting to live in the end. And then we’ve got Teacher “I’ll screw everyone over to show how smart I am!” still being a thing there at the end. Maybe the moral of Worm was “Life isn’t fair.
Sparsebeard on November 9, 2017 at 17:35 said:
Comas or dream chapters always feel like a cop out to me. Kind of like Super mario 2’s ending it’s just kinda cheap…
Also, if its a coma, isn’t there a few people who can surely heal her (since her brain ain’t that damaged, her thinking process is fine in the “dream”).
The two realistic options I see are either she’s kept “on the ice” by TT and contessa in some coma just in case she’s needed in the future… Likely if the whole removing a power is not possible (perhaps it was a bluff by cauldron to their clients).
Or it some kind of purgatory…
Not a fan of that option…
Also Taylor being in purgatory means the afterlife is real, and that raises a whole ‘nother can of worms and questions for the setting.
For me, the reveal that Danny survived was more importan than Taylor’s survival/health. But if Danny survived and is in Earth-א, so must Taylor. So, I’m one of the people who say that they both survived, are at Aleph, and are safely (safely for the rest of the multiverse, that is) cut off from the rest of the story.
As for Danny’s death, Taylor does freak out about it, because she realizes that the rest of the gang is hiding a death of someone important from her. The same ending has Tattletale say that it was Brian, though. (Or is that part of the ending also part of the coma dream? I’m not sure how it’s supposed to be according to that theory.)
Also, giving Taylor the powerectomy and not killing her, but locking her and her father in the world without the powers fits Contessa, in my opinion. She did some ruthless things, but her interlude tells us that it did weigh on her conscience.
I’m…. not entirely sure Contessa has the ability to give someone a powerectomy of that sort? Ok yes, PtV tells her exactly the steps she needs to take to do literally anything. But it doesn’t mean she’s incapable of making mistakes? Assuming she was performing BRAIN SURGERY in a world that literally just ended, are we to believe she has the ability to do that, even if she has the knowledge? There’s more to surgery than just knowledge, there’s muscle memory, skill, etc.
Also, it doesn’t allow her to do impossible things. Panacea fucked up Taylor so bad that she lost the ability to read, write, talk, or even understand ANY behavior that wasn’t aggression, near the end. Are we to believe that unlocking her shard did all that, and that it was reparable damage? The whole point of how tragic the ending arc is that Taylor is broken, she is broken in a way that gives her the ability to save everyone else, but she is absolutely Broken. Even if Bonesaw (Or Contessa, with the help of PtV guiding her) remove the part of her brain that uses powers, are we given any indication that doing so would magically restore Taylor’s mental faculties, and ability to speak, etc? It seems super far fetched.
The whole idea that Taylor was somehow depowered (really, this honestly feels so far fetched in my opinion) and shoved into an alternate reality and gives to live happy ever after after the events of the final arc… it just feels so out of touch, like from a completely different story. That’s my two cents, at least.
I got the impression that at the end, it was her passenger talking instead of her (in the last parts, it actually refers to Taylor as the passenger) – it seems like what Contessa did was blast away the part of the brain that connected to the passenger so that Taylor was able to regain control.
I know exactly what you mean. Brandon Sanderson: Mistborn spoilers ahead, if you didn’t read it and plan to, DO NOT read ahead.
When Mistborn ended with the death of the main protagonists, there were a lot of posts about why was their death necessary, they of all people deserved to live in the world after the series, etc. My opinion was, however, that this new world didn’t need them. The series was also in many ways about action and reaction – that if you wanted to have an effect on the world, you needed to be prepared to have an effect had on yourself by the world.
The lesson of Worm, however, seems different. Worm to me seems to be about how, if you want a happy ending, you really need to work for it – Über or Leet (I don’t remember which) come to mind – an amazing power, no work put in: an inglorious end. The other lesson seems to also vindicate Taylor above all other characters: That mankind needs to work together, and if they do, they can achieve even the impossible. Of course, I’m not the world’s best literary analyst – far from it – but to me, her survival doesn’t seem quite as jarring, as Vin’s would from Mistborn.
As for the technical possibility of what Contessa did (in my opinion), well, the way I see her power, is that it shows HER path to victory. It never required her to run 6000 miles in half an hour, for example, it only shows actions that Contessa can physically undertake, or it shows the route which helps her acquire the ability to do so. I’m under the opinion that if it is possible at all (granted, this isn’t proven), than Contessa could feasibly do it. And why would she possibly need two shots to kill Taylor, anyway?
However, even though my headcanon still has Taylor as living on locked-away Earth-Aleph, I don’t want to “convert” you over to this opinion. I fully expect Taylor to have NO effect whatsoever on the entirety of Worm 2 (except by way of her legacy, of course). I only wished to show how I arrived at my conclusions.
And, as always, don’t take it as any more than my own, entirely uneducated guess.
Anonymous Pterodactyl on November 9, 2017 at 09:08 said:
Contessa’s ability to do this is actually referenced during interlude 12.5 of Worm:
“For leaks, our usual procedure is to discredit the individual in question and deploy our in-house division of parahumans to drive them into hiding, remove their powers or both.”
I didn’t catch that until I reread Worm, but IMO it pretty strongly supports the hypothesis that Contessa did take away Taylor’s powers and left her alive.
Ebil on November 14, 2017 at 03:48 said:
Holy crap, good catch. Contessa’s ability to perform powerectomies confirmed.
Daniel Keys on November 8, 2017 at 18:57 said:
>There’s more to surgery than just knowledge, there’s muscle memory, skill, etc.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but the same applies to combat. It even applies to non-surgical firearm usage. Contessa would presumably train at least some relevant skills on general principles, and that’s ignoring the role of her passenger. Remember how Taylor’s shard had her move a certain way in combat, unconsciously, using a technique she never learned or thought up?
Also, most of what you say about Taylor’s brain at the end actually contradicts what we see just before the epilogues. Yes, she still couldn’t speak English, but even if you decide her conversation with Contessa was a dream it still shows her thinking coherently in a Taylor-like way.
Ben on November 10, 2017 at 15:11 said:
I don’t think Contessa IS actually capable of making mistakes when she uses her power, regardless of her familiarity with a field. She describes her power to Taylor like this during the Behemoth fight:
The second sentence seems to cover this. She doesn’t just see what she has to do, she can follow all of those steps perfectly. There are (I think) potentially relevant limits—if the surgery required more strength or physical endurance than she has, I don’t think she’d see a path allowing her to do it herself. I imagine knowing that she will be able to act perfectly with each movement would allow her to perform surgery much more quickly and less stressfully than any normal surgeon. I don’t see her lack of muscle memory, etc., as an issue.
Of course, that doesn’t answer the question as to whether there actually was a path for Contessa to follow to remove Taylor’s powers this way.
Insanenoodlyguy on January 8, 2018 at 15:31 said:
But in fact that is the one thing we can count on. Contessa doesn’t make mistakes. Her timing is perfect because her secondary power is the precise timing to follow her precise instructions. Yeah, her power sometimes says it’s not possible, but that just means Contessa doesn’t try to do the impossible thing.
Whatever happened to Taylor after she got shot, it is what Contessa wanted to happen when she pulled the trigger.
Bat-chan on November 8, 2017 at 16:00 said:
I just don’t want the ending to be “oh it’s actually a dying dream/dying coma.” Like, sure, it’s only the one chapter, but it’d still be just the worst.
Shrubbery Whisper on November 7, 2017 at 13:04 said:
I’m happy that FlippinMadison felt something about what she did. Someone had to stand there and look at things from there. A lost part of the picture.
Which, by the way, leaves Emma with the opportunity to be found, too, one day… Although we would not have learned much, if she does not break into pieces and gather back.
>Point_Me_@_The_Sky: It’s easy enough to keep something moving once it’s already moving, but getting it going in the first place is hard. That’s the thing about second chances and fresh starts. It’s a (re)start. You gotta get things moving all over again, the second time around.
And here things go now? Part two?
We must keep taking carry about this… We must let h… stuff go…
We should be somewhere between the two.
Worm is an unhappy compromise every time, is not it? Deal with this. Yeeah, that easy. *sniff-sniff*
Not much opportunity for Emma to be found. She’s presumed dead as of Extinction 27.1.
“No one has seen the body.” Of course in the Worm this is totaly not an argument…
But for all the simplicity of the denouement, there is incompleteness in this. Yes, this story is not about karmic lessons, correction and awareness of mistakes (maybe). However, this too simply happened.
“Emma stayed at home, Scion came, she’s dead, the family blames Taylor” – it’s almost like Teacher himself will fall into the elevator shaft in an accident. *Really* fall into shaft and *really* in an accident.
Yes, such things happen to the best of us. Yes, there is no more suitable guy for that. But… But there will not be an important piece that will turn this into a story!
If someone is important, you can not just take it and lose it between pages. It’s like the law of conservation. Even the most stupid and ridiculous death of an important character will have cost, clarification or consequences. Emma definitely still had some reserve of words and / or plot on her account.
So I feel this needs it’s own string to start. Let’s do the crazy theories people no doubt have in universe as to what happened to Taylor. I mean even if the general public doesn’t know about it, every single cape knows what “Kephri” means. And I’m amazed no one’s talked yet, honestly.
“Kephri? Yeah Taylor Hebert, I heard the Wardens have her on ice. I mean like littirally they froze her. She’s their goddamn doomsday device, their nuclear detterent. Shit gets bad enough for them, the new Triumverate thaws her out as one big FUCK YOU to everyone.”
(… it’s Khepri)
Rogthnor on November 7, 2017 at 20:44 said:
Nah man, she’s the new sleeper. You really think he subsumed a world? Nah, he died during the fight and the Warden’ s are using him to hide the fact that Khepri took over a planet.
paidraig on November 8, 2017 at 03:48 said:
Wait, you think Scion went evil on his own? No way, Khepri took control of him and made all the capes fight to the death for her amusement.
What are y’all talking about? It’s pretty obvious that Khepri never even existed. Those damn capes got mad at Scion for not joining any group and not taking any sort of responsibility, and just decided to go and off him! Even though all he did was help people! What did they *think* would happen?!
randominterrupt on November 8, 2017 at 09:55 said:
Khepri is the reason so many people believe the moon landings really happened, man! I’m telling you, it can only be the result of mass mind control, I have some very credible sources on MeTube who back up this theory.
storryeater on November 14, 2017 at 22:00 said:
You are joking, but technically you are not wrong…
Nivirce on November 8, 2017 at 14:15 said:
God, you people just can’t accept reality. It’s *obvious* that Khepri was the code-name of a secret CIA experiment in mind-control. Something went wrong, Scion freaked out, and then everyone had to clean up all the mess. It’s simple!
Centipedal on November 8, 2017 at 20:07 said:
… Who’s Khepri? Do you mean that Russian robot everyone thought was a superhero?
Thad on November 8, 2017 at 23:23 said:
Khepri was the codename for a project being run by a splinter faction in the CUI, trying to make a hybrid clone of the SImurgh. When GM happened, the splinter group saw an opportunity to use their experiment. Why do you think “she” emerged at the same time as the Yangban were destroyed?
Yeah, I know Khepri. She’s the one who controlled Oswald into killing JFK, then made Jack Ruby shoot Oswald to cover her tracks. It was thanks to her that Nixon learned to value bugging things.
Hey, Madison.
Point_Me_@_The_Sky gave you good advice. Especially the part about not seeking forgiveness. Redemption isn’t about being cleared of guilt for your misdeeds, it’s about becoming the kind of person who pushes the other direction.
Alex on June 12, 2018 at 22:36 said:
“Redemption is a rare and special thing, after all. It is not for everyone”
Soon Kim, Order of the Stick
Horatio Von Becker on June 12, 2018 at 23:04 said:
Poetic as that is, it is dead wrong. Redemption isn’t always accepted by everyone, but it’s by no means rare – it’s basically universal, in fact – and it’s available to everyone. (It can be very costly and very, very difficult. But it is available, and in my opinion it’s worth it.)
As to why this is so important to me, it’s a religious thing with strong mortal rationale: if we hold grudges instead of evaluating objectively, we’re missing opportunities and fostering enmity. Teaching universal access to repentance and redemption helps.
snowskeeper on June 15, 2018 at 18:00 said:
I think you two might be working from different definitions.
Axle on November 7, 2017 at 19:50 said:
Holy… Wow, I did not expect Taylor to get mentioned at all. This feels like the perfect way to wrap up the arc, can’t wait to see what kind of team we’ll meet soon.
That was incredible
Never been a regular commenter, and I’ve been absent for most of Twig. Still, I am glad that I have the chance to read Worm 2 as it is written. This prologue arc was pretty sweet, and I felt like each chapter got progressively better than the last one. Great job Wildbow.
Nonetheless, I have to say that this last chapter, even though it was good and enjoyable, it still felt to me lik… fan service. I mean, it is entirely plausible for Madison to be struck by strong feelings of remorse, but to me, it felt like this interaction of her with a cape was a little forced. I don’t know if it makes that much narrative sense for it to happen, even for a prologue. I wonder if anyone else also felt the same way?
Well, people thinking about the protagonist… I think it is PRETTY CLEAR that the protag is someone from this new group, and somehow they seem to be a… Rag-tag bunch? It’s strange, all fo them seems to have one or other mental problem… After the end of the world, comprehensible, but still part of it. Anyway, my guess be set on stone before the first chapter in here: Point is the protag! Hurrah! \o/
It’s nice to see that people are talking about Taylor. Not many people will know what she did, but some will. That counts for something. Also, it’s nice to see how Madison regrets what she did. Finally, was Julia ever mentioned in Worm 1? Or was she just Browbeat’d?
Thersnofork on November 8, 2017 at 23:10 said:
Read Worm over the course of a month or so. That WAS my media for that time. Made a ‘website’ just so I could read and possibly comment on the developments in Worm 2. This is exciting to the point of anxiety. I dread the lulls involved with chapter output but am willing to read as it comes out rather than read it all once it’s finished. Here we go!!
Soni on December 6, 2017 at 14:56 said:
And because it eneds to be said
>needs
Mmmm. Delicious closure.
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Barry Avrich to direct Knoedler Gallery art forgery documentary
Barry Avrich’s Toronto-based prodco Melbar Entertainment Group has begun production on a new feature-length documentary set to recount the infamous Knoedler Gallery art scandal. Avrich (pictured), whose credits include The Last ...
Barry Avrich’s Toronto-based prodco Melbar Entertainment Group has begun production on a new feature-length documentary set to recount the infamous Knoedler Gallery art scandal.
Avrich (pictured), whose credits include The Last Mogul, The Reckoning, Blurred Lines and Prosecuting Evil, has been tapped to direct the as-yet untitled film, set to be completed later this year.
His thriller-inspired approach will explore the world of art collecting through the massive New York scandal. M. Knoedler & Co. was one of the oldest commercial galleries in the U.S. when it closed in 2011 after operation for 165 years.
Between 1994 and 2011, the gallery sold more than 60 forged works from such famed artists as Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko, produced by a forgery ring based in Queens for over US$80 million in total.
“The reception from those that observed, participated and were victimized has been overwhelming, affirming the continuing obsession with the art world,” said Avrich in a statement. “As a filmmaker I have always had a great interest in the art world.”
(Photo from Barry Avrich’s website)
Barry Avrich, Melbar Entertainment Group
Bell Media, Melbar team for “David Foster: Off The Record”
TIFF ’17: Netflix’s Lady Gaga doc gets world premiere in Toronto
Hot Docs ’18: Barry Avrich’s Weinstein doc added to lineup
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Conjoined twin girls Anna and Hope Richards, aged one, were were successfully separated at Texas Children’s Hospital. Local caption: Anna and Hope Richards
A set of one-year-old conjoined twins who had been sharing part of their hearts have been successful separated following a mammoth seven-hour operation. Anna and Hope Richards were separated at the Texas Children’s Hospital in Texas, it was announced this week, by a multidisciplinary 75-strong team of surgeons, anesthesiologists, cardiologists and nurses. The girls were delivered via C-section on 29 December, 2016, at 35 weeks gestation, weighing a combined 9lbs 12oz (4.4kg) and were conjoined at their chest and abdomen, through the length of their torso and shared the chest wall, pericardial sac (lining of the heart), diaphragm and liver. In addition they had large blood vessels connecting their hearts. The twins are now recovering at the hospital and are expected to be strong enough to go home in about a month’s time. “We've thought about and prayed for this day for almost two years,” their mother Jill Richards said, who welcomed the girls along with her husband Michael and their sons Collin and Seth. “It's an indescribable feeling to look at our girls in two separate beds.” The epic surgery was carried out on January 13 and involved planning and preparation before the girls were even born. In November last year, aged 11 months, the twins underwent a surgical procedure to place tissue expanders to allow their skin to grow and stretch ready for their separation. Dr. Larry Hollier, surgeon-in-chief and chief of plastic surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital, said: “The success of this incredibly complex surgery was the result of our dedicated team members’ hard work throughout the last year. “Through simulations and countless planning meetings, we were able to prepare for situations that could arise during the separation. “We are thrilled with the outcome and look forward to continuing to care for Anna and Hope as they recover.” The Richards family, from North Texas, learned Jill was carrying conjoined twins during a routine ultrasound. The fam
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Conjoined twin girls successfully split - 15 Feb 2018
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Republican Convention 2012
Mitt Romney's Two Faces on Immigration
Shikha Dalmia | 9.2.2012 2:16 PM
Republicans exuded so much warmth and sunshine toward immigrants during their three-day convention gala last week that no one would ever guess that only recently their presidential contenders were competing over who'd make the tougher Deporter-in-Chief. Herman Cain called for a 20-foot electrified border fence with barbed wire that
killed on contact. Michele Bachman pledged to send Immigration and Customs agents to hunt illegals in the interior and chase them out.
But Romney finally triumphed over the final pack with his plan to make the life of illegals so miserable that they would "self deport." A defeated Newt Gingrich declared Romney the winner: "He is the most anti-immigrant candidate of us all," Newt announced.
But there was Mitt's son, Craig, at the convention choking up about the immigrant roots of his family. "It's easy to forget that the story of my father's success begins with the story of two immigrants—my grandfathers—who came to this country [one from Mexico] with little more than hope in the opportunity of America," he said.
He was hardly the only one. As ABC recounts, there was:
South Dakota Sen. John Thune who described how his Norwegian grandfather immigrated through Ellis Island, changing his name along the way.
Former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum who explained how his father immigrated "from the mountains of northern Italy, on a ship named Providence."
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul told of his great grandfather who arrived penniless to live the "American Dream," and also cited struggles and triumphs of friends—a Cambodian family in Kentucky and Vietnamese brothers who arrived on a "leaky boat."
Utah House candidate Mia Love, who in her two minutes on the podium, managed to mention her parents immigrating from Haiti "with $10 in their pocket."
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley who proclaimed that she is the "proud daughter of Indian immigrants."
And Texas Senate candidate Ted Cruz told a "love story of freedom" about his Irish-Italian working-class mom and his Cuban refugee dad.
And then Romney himself, in his etch-a-sketch moment, crooned: "We are a nation of immigrants. We are the children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the ones who wanted a better life, the driven ones, the ones who woke up at night hearing that voice telling them that life in that place called America could be better."
But conservative hawks repeatedly claim that to know where Palestinians really stand on making peace with Israel, one should look not at what their leaders proclaim in sanitized international forums but at their formal charters. By the same token, to know where the Republican Party really stands on immigration, one should look not at the bathetic personal tales it tells the world during prime time TV—but at the platform the party faithful hammered out in the backrooms away from the convention klieg lights.
And this platform certainly pays lip service to handing more H1-B visas (temporary work permits, not green cards or citizenship, mind you) to high-skilled immigrants – but evidently only to those who speak English! And not to simply make it easier for businesses to grow, but to "reclaim this country's traditional position of dominance in international trade."
But the bulk of the party's immigration statement is devoted to condemning the lack of respect illegal immigrants have for the rule of law. It declares "securing the rule of law both at our borders and port of entry" as "our highest priority." And to fulfill that priority, it regurgitates the usual bromides about making E-Verify mandatory for hiring (so much for deregulating the workplace) and completing a "double-layered fence" on the southern border (so much for cutting spending on wasteful government programs).
Even more distressingly, however, it goes out of its way to portray illegals as criminals who make communities unsafe – never mind that border-towns such as El Paso with a large undocumented population have an exceedingly low crime rate.
But the heart of the statement is devoted to operationalizing Mitt Romney's plan to get immigrants to "self deport" by opposing:
"any form of amnesty;"
denying "federal grants" to states that offer "instate tuition" to illegal aliens;
giving Uncle Sam the tools to go after "sanctuary cities" that "endanger their own citizens;" aiding states like Alabama that want to cut even basic municipal services like water to undocumented households…
Party platforms are of course written to be ignored. They are more useful as liners for kitty litter boxes than as guidance for future presidents. But the problem for Romney, should he become president, is that this party platform basically enunciates the immigration vision he himself articulated during the primary debates. I actually don't believe that he is cruel enough to believe this vision. He said what he thought he needed to say to appease the rowdy restrictionists in his party and win the nomination. But the problem is that having said that – and having his words codified in the platform – he has basically forfeited his ability to lead his party toward a more enlightened position and possibly paved the way for some pretty bad stuff on this issue, all the happy talk at the convention notwithstanding.
NEXT: Ed Krayewski on 5 Stupid Government Interventions in Sports
Shikha Dalmia is a senior analyst at Reason Foundation.
Republican Convention 2012 Election 2012 Immigration Mitt Romney
September.2.2012 at 2:29 pm
Both parties seem to be of two minds on immigration: Conservatives lament the cultural intrusion while businesses enjoy the lower labor costs. Unions dislike the competition while progressives want to feel good about themselves.
I, on the other hand, think turnabout is fair play. Americans should sneak into Mexico to mow their lawns. See how they like it.
Episiarch
FoE is white on the right side. All his people are white on the right side.
You useless pieces of bland flesh.
You’re dead! You half-white!
Fascinating. Two irrevocably hostile humanoids.
You monotone humans are all alike. First you condemn and then attack!
Brandybuck
I would wear my Frank Gorshin suit in solidarity with the oppressed left/white minority, except that it would embarrassingly reveal my unit to be of only average size.
The Riddler being in that episode just makes it that much more awesome. Just think if they had been able to get Burt Ward, Adam West, or Cesar Romero as well.
It’s interesting that you would choose to list Burt Ward first.
Interesting…or the gayest monster since gay came to Gaytown?
I’d opt for Victor Buono or Vincent Price.
King Tut being in an episode of Star Trek would have been pretty awesome. Vincent Price, as great as he was, wouldn’t really have fit, though, I don’t think.
An Egghead planet would have been sweet.
Francisco d Anconia
I would wear my Frank Gorshin suit in solidarity with the oppressed left/white minority
Surely you mean “right/black” minority…
In the meantime the Democratic administration is deporting undocumented workers at an unprecedented race. If you look at deeds and not words, Republicans are marginally more immigrant friendly than Democrats.
Ice Nine
“Republicans exuded so much warmth and sunshine toward immigrants legal immigrants during their three-day convention gala last week that no one would ever guess that only recently their presidential contenders were competing over who’d make the tougher Deporter-in-Chief of illegal immigrants.”
(And, sorry about putting your sentence in its true nonsensical form.)
That’s actually a great rewrite. It magnifies the morally obnoxious distinction being made based solely on arbitrary conditions of birth.
Think about how this would be fixed for a convention in the 1880’s:
“Republicans exuded so much warmth and sunshine toward immigrants white immigrants during their three-day convention gala last week that no one would ever guess that only recently their presidential contenders were competing over who’d make the tougher Deporter-in-Chief of Chinese immigrants.”
Timeless!
Heroic Mulatto
Well, we must draw the line somewhere, you know.
BakedPenguin
Dude, the Chinaman is not the issue.
Why not? He’s wearing a pimp hat.
But we don’t want the Irish!!
September.3.2012 at 11:03 am
Good point. Make them legal, problem solved!
How many of those parents and grandparents mentioned in the article would have been considered legal immigrants under modern laws?
Archduke PantsFan
Apu: Today, I am no longer an Indian living in America. I am an Indian-American.
Lisa: You know, in a way, all Americans are immigrants. Except, of course Native Americans.
Homer: Yeah, Native Americans like us.
Lisa: No, I mean American Indians.
Apu: Like me.
protefeed
he has basically forfeited his ability to lead his party toward a more enlightened position and possibly paved the way for some pretty bad stuff on this issue, all the happy talk at the convention notwithstanding.
Not really. It’s Romney, and prior words don’t constrain him in pursuing political expediency.
That being said, neither party, having briefly had control of both the White House and Congress, did anything to liberalize immigration policy.
Higher fences, much wider gates.
Face it, if you can’t control your own border, you’re not a country.
Yes, but if you have those much wider gates, you don’t need those higher fences as you are eliminating a lot of the incentive for human smuggling, the “immigration black market” if you will. Not that people won’t try, but those that will would be the real baddies.
The “higher fences” is obviously a metaphor for strict enforcement of the immigration laws we do have, but I’m all in favor of liberalizing those laws to make getting work, residency and citizenship easier. Our immigration and natualization is a disgrace as it is.
The “higher fences” is obviously a metaphor for strict enforcement of the immigration laws we do have, but I’m all in favor of liberalizing those laws to make getting work, residency and citizenship easier.
“Cannabis should be legal, but until then, let ’em rot in jail!”
Xenocles
So we liberalize our immigration policy and dramatically pare down the black market? Sounds good to me.
Eduard van Haalen
Sounds like a winner.
I’m curious what the USA has against people who travel on airplanes. I’ve done much international travel over the years and noticed that foreign air travelers have more hoops to jump through each year. Lately they have to have their eyeballs scanned or something. They must show documents, declare where they will stay and when they are leaving and what they intend to do while they’re here.
In contrast, you wade across the Rio Grande and you’re golden, at least as far as Libertarians and Democrats are concerned. What’s up, anyway?
Calidissident
Cause dumb laws about people traveling on airplanes justify dumb laws about people coming here by land or water
Hoppy Harrington
People who travel on airplanes take the “right people’s” jerbs.
I tried to get a tourist visa for my Chinese girlfriend a few years back. It’s nearly impossible, unless you have kids, land, or a million dollars.
By contrast, flying into Hong Kong apparently just requires you to show your passport.
David E. Gallaher
Repugnicans are like Rush Limbaugh who does his show with half his brain tied behind his back.
Repugnicans try to win elections with more than half the voters tied behind their backs: women, immigrants, minorities, young people… Which group did I leave out?
Anyway, good luck! Not.
Math, how does it work?
To start,you mention “women”. Get back to us if you this means anything more than “whoop for abortion”.
Dunphy (the real one)
“Both parties seem to be of two minds on immigration: Conservatives lament the cultural intrusion while businesses enjoy the lower labor costs”
i’ve seen next to none conservative criticism/lamentation of immigration
i’ve seen plenty of conservative criticism of ILLEGAL immigration, and the fact that in many respects we do little about it/to prevent it and/or incentivize it by providing benefits to some illegal immigrants in some states, etc.
Cytotoxic
i’ve seen next to none conservative criticism/lamentation of immigrationdrugs
i’ve seen plenty of conservative criticism of ILLEGAL immigrationdrugs, and the fact that in many respects we do little about it/to prevent it and/or incentivize it by providing benefits to some illegal immigrants in some states, etc.not enough enforcement of asinine laws.
drug usage is a purely personal decision. there are few things more private, intimate, and clearly none of the govt’s business, than the contents of my bloodstream
borders, national sovereignty and the enforcement of same is a completely different matter
many cultures throughout history have celebrated drug use, and drug use is as natural as, to paraphrase john lennon , milk. actually more so- humans drinking cows milk is actually more unnatural than humans using drugs
opiods for example. our body PRODUCES endorphins, a word that means ENDogenous MORPHINe.
otoh, nations throughout history have recognized that borders matter, and that one doesn’t get to say “i’m a (athenian, spartan, frenchman, etc.) merely by crossing a border (illegally) and planting your foot on the land.
and before i get some kind of libertarian purity rubbish, i will just stay i stand with libertarians like ron paul vis a vis immigration
http://www.issues2000.org/tx/R…..ration.htm
…i will just stay i stand with libertarians like ron paul vis a vis immigration
Immigrants who can’t be sent back due to the magnitude of the problem should not be given citizenship–no amnesty should be granted. Maybe a “green card” with an asterisk could be issued. This in-between status, keeping illegal immigrants in limbo, will be said that it will create a class of 2nd-class citizens. Yet it could be argued that it may well allow some immigrants who come here illegally a beneficial status without automatic citizenship–a much better option than deportation.
Very agreeable sentiment. Very much like Milton Friedman’s position. This Ron Paul fellow sounds like he might go places!
Actually, while nations throughout history wouldn’t necessarily call you a Frenchman, etc., restricting the crossing of borders is a peculiarly 20th century development — mostly the result of newly politically powerful labor unions being able to pass protectionist legislation.
September.3.2012 at 2:44 am
yes, but consider that crossing a border now means you are entitled to “stuff” that wasn’t usually true in societies of old. at a bare minimum, social safety net stuff, ER treatment, police and fire service etc.
But consider too that the granting of entitlements to “stuff” is tenable only because the borders are sealed.
What a fucking horrible article. Has Reason become liberal Kool-Aid drinkers?
Is not one of the few appropriate duties of the Federal Government to secure the borders?
True or False: The ideal scenario is one where every immigrant is a legal immigrant. If you answered True, then let’s move in that direction. If you answered False, Fuck you.
And for those who think that millions of illegal aliens can’t be identified and deported, BULLSHIT!!!!! Give me that job and and 100G salary and I’ll get it done yesterday. In the meantime, when did it become asinine to try to stop the inbound flow?
“inbound flow” = “inbound ILLEGAL flow”
True or False: The ideal scenario is one where every immigrant is a legal immigrant.
True. The US should legalize virtually all immigration.
Given that this is a purely bureaucratic distinction, why can’t we just legalize them all? I’m sure you just want to deport murderers and rapists, though.
And for those who think that millions of illegal aliens can’t be identified and deported
Fuck, there are millions of foreign murders and rapists here?
Gadianton
Shilling for La Raza again, reason? If you don’t recognize the difference between “anti-immigration” and “anti-illegal immigration,” then what good are you? If we are a nation of laws, then we should act like it. If you don’t like the law, work to get it changed. Ignoring the laws you don’t like leads to what we have now: contempt for all law. If you want an open-borders immigration policy, get the people elected who hold the same view you do, and get the law changed.
Deliberately misrepresenting peoples’ positions on an issue is libelous, and sounds like malice aforethought to me.
Ignoring the laws you don’t like leads to what we have now: contempt for all law.
Just curious: What specific laws do you think are treated with contempt that should not be treated with contempt?
Let’s go with immigration law. Many people here sneer contemptuously at the idea that borders between nations mean something. Our government ignores its own laws on the subject, and the populace takes its lead from the government.
September.3.2012 at 12:19 pm
I was looking for an example that wasn’t simply circular reasoning.
I think immigration law — like drug law, vice law, etc. — is bad law. But I don’t think contempt for those examples of bad law leads to contempt of all law.
Apparently you think so don’t either.
I’m all in favor of liberalizing our drug laws. But until then, throw pot users in jail!
Actually, yes. The obverse of the coin of agency is responsibility. People who smoke pot do so knowing they are in violation of the law, and they know that the sentences for illegal drug use are stupidly draconian. Part of making choices is determining if the pleasure derived from the choice is worth the consequences of the action.
Short version: If you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime.
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hnRNP E1 and E2 overexpression have only limited effects on HIV-1 RNA levels. 293 cells were transfected with eithermycE1 (E1), mycE2 (E2) or CMVmyc (myc) along with provirus HxBruR-/RI- and CMV PLAP. 48 hrs post transfection, cells were lifted in 1×PBS and total RNA isolated. Northern and RT-PCRs were performed. (A) Northern analysis of the effect of mycE1/E2 overexpression on levels of 2 kb, 4 kb and 9 kb classes of HIV-1 RNA. Probe derived from the HIV-1 LTR was used to detect all 3 classes of viral RNA; viral RNAs (9, 4, 2 kb) are indicated. Blots were stripped and reprobed for GAPDH RNA to confirm equal loading. At right, a summary of 3 sets of experimental results quantitated using Image Quant v5.2. Figures are normalized to GAPDH with the results for the myc control vector set at 1 for each RNA class. Error bars show standard deviation. An asterisk denotes 95% confidence level that the difference between the sample and the myc control is significant. (B) RT-PCR showing effects of mycE1 and mycE2 on the 2 kb species of HIV-1 RNA. Reporter plasmids and identity of amplicons are indicated. At right, a summary of 3 sets of experimental results quantitated using Image Quant v5.2. Shown is the percentage of each species of the total RNA for each lane. For each species of RNA the myc value was set at 1. Error bars show standard deviation. An asterisk denotes 95% confidencelevel that the difference between the sample and the myc control is significant. (C) RT-PCR showing effects of mycE1 and mycE2 on the 4 kb species of HIV-1 RNA. Reporter plasmids and identity of amplicons are indicated. At right, a summary of 3 sets of experimental results, quantitated using Image Quant v5.2 as described in (B).
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Roman Gokhman
BTS, Map of the Soul Tour
K-Pop supergroup BTS announced today that they will kick off a North American stadium tour with two shows at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. The “Map of the Soul Tour” follows six stadium shows that sold out in minutes in 2019. The tour will begin on April 25 and 26…
Further Confusion
SAN JOSE — Nearly 5,000 people, many in colorful, fluffy costumes, filled the San Jose Convention Center during last weekend’s Further Confusion, a two-day convention catering to the Furry subculture, a group of people who have an affinity for anthropomorphic animals. The convention featured panel discussions, dance competitions, a…
LiveNation announces 2020 Country Megaticket shows and on-sales
Megaticket 2020
Brad Paisley performs at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View on June 7, 2019. Sean Liming/Staff. Live Nation on Friday announced its annual Country Megaticket promotion, which includes seven—or eight—summer country music concerts for one price. The promotion includes Shoreline Amphitheatre concerts by the likes of Thomas Rhett, Rascal Flatts,…
SF’s War Memorial Opera House to get new seats, improved sightlines in renovation
San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Opera, SF Ballet, SF Opera, War Memorial Opera House
The theater at the War Memorial Opera House photographed on Dec. 11, 2019. Adam Pardee/Staff. The War Memorial Opera House, home to the San Francisco Ballet and San Francisco Opera, will get new custom-made seats and other modern improvements in the final phase of a refurbishment project. The work,…
High Sierra Music Festival announces initial lineup and on-sales
High Sierra Music Festival
Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, Femi Kuti & The Positive Force and Lettuce are among the first wave of acts announced to perform at the 30th annual High Sierra Music Festival, which returns July 2 to 5 to Quincy, California. Other artists include the Bay Area’s The California Honeydrops, The Floozies,…
Pearl Jam announces two Oakland Arena dates in April, new LP ‘Gigaton’
Gigaton, Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam will headline Oakland Arena on April 18 and 19, with tickets going on sale Jan. 24. The band’s 11th studio album, Gigaton, will be released on March 27. Gigaton is the band’s first since 2013’s Lightning Bolt. A 16-date tour will kick of March 18 in Toronto…
SF Sketchfest: The Monkees’ Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz are ‘believers’ once again
Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, The Monkees
Moderator Paul Myers (L) with The Monkees’ Michael Nesmith and Micky Dolenz at Marines’ Memorial Theatre on Jan. 12, 2020. Courtesy: Dan Dion. SAN FRANCISCO — “I’m a Believer” and “(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone” wafted through the Marines’ Memorial Theatre Sunday before SF Sketchfest’s Tribute to The Monkees:…
Local musicians to be featured at ‘Songwriters Spotlight’ at Sweetwater in Mill Valley
Eric Silverman, Whiskerman
Eric Silverman is one of four local artists performing at Sweetwater in Mill Valley this weekend. Courtesy of the artist. Four Bay Area songwriters will perform an all-ages Songwriters Spotlight show at Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley this Sunday. Songwriters Spotlight 7 p.m., Sunday Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera…
San Jose Jazz announces more than 20 shows for Winter Fest 2020
San Jose Jazz, San Jose Jazz Winter Fest
Miguel Zenón will perform with his quartet at the 2020 San Jose Jazz Winter Fest. Courtesy. More than 20 world-renowned jazz and jazz-adjacent acts will take the stage next month during the annual San Jose Jazz Winter Fest, which will be held in numerous Silicon Valley performance halls and…
BottleRock releases daily lineups, one-day tickets on-sale Thursday
BottleRock, BottleRock 2020, BottleRock Napa, BRNV
Anderson .Paak performs at The Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2019. Shawn Robbins/Staff. Organizers for BottleRock Napa Valley teased that an an on-sale date for single-day passes would be coming in the near future when they announced their 2020 line-up earlier this week, but even they…
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All Quotes tagged Drive(22)
Ghosts are real, that much I know. I've seen them all my life...
— Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), Crimson Peak
GhostsEmotionDriveLossRevengeLove
[speaking to the group] I came to Venice by accident. No, let me rephrase that. I came to Venice because of an accident. Ten years ago, I killed a man. It was my fault. There's no excuse for it. You see, when it's left up to me, my best thinking, well, my best thinking tells me it's okay to get loaded and get behind the wheel of a car. And that's what I did. I took another human being's life. And, in the process, destroyed what was left of mine. But the people in these rooms, you got me sober. You got me back on my feet, which is just as well, as I walk everywhere now. The State of California no longer thinks it's a good idea for me to drive. You taught me to be humble, to be honest, brutally honest, about who I am and what I'd done. You taught me that if I really wanted to help myself, that I had to stick my hand out and help others.
— Chip (Will Arnett), Flaked, Season 1: Westminster
accidentMurderCaliforniaDrive
Oh, come on Chassidy. Jesus doesn't drive a Camaro. Or have a solo IMDb credit for a herpes commercial.
— Bullet (Kyle Kinane), Paradise PD, Season 1: Dungeons & Dragnet
jesusDriveCamaroHerpescommercial
I need a family to drive me crazy.
— The Goo Goo Dolls, Boxes (Boxes)
FamilyDrivecrazy
The truth of our existence is that we’re all blessed and cursed with the drive to move forward. Live the next day.
— Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill), DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Season 1: Blood Ties
TruthExistenceBlessedCursedforwardProgresslivesurviveDrive
Omar Bradley basically won the war for us. So do we judge him for his absence for his family and his infidelity, or do we just let that slide, because what does it matter at the end? The guy stopped Hitler. There's a certain type of man that history reveres. We see it over and over. Jefferson, Hamilton, Picasso, Hemingway, all of them cheaters. It's like they have this bald desire this willingness to take whatever they want, that ends up making them remarkable.
— Noah Solloway (Dominic West), The Affair, Season 2: Episode 10
CheatingPsychology of MenDriveComplex Moral Portraits
I refused to take no for an answer.
— Bessie Coleman, They Persisted
perseveranceempowermentDrive
Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.
— Mark Cuban, America's STAR Entrepreneurs
PassionObsessionDrive
When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.
— Theodore Roosevelt, Happiness and Virtue Beyond East and West
DrivemotivationPositivity
Temple, who was driving, suddenly faltered and wept. “I’ve read that libraries are where immortality lies. . . . I don’t want my thoughts to die with me. . . . I want to have done something. . . . I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a positive contribution—know that my life has meaning. Right now, I’m talking about things at the very core of my existence.” I was stunned. As I stepped out of the car to say goodbye, I said, “I’m going to hug you. I hope you don’t mind.” I hugged her—and (I think) she hugged me back.
— Oliver Sacks, An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
DriveDrivingfalterWeepcrylibraryCollectionImmortalityTruthLiecontribution positiveMeaningExistenceCoregoodbyebyeHugSadLifepurpose
My girlfriend bet me I couldn't build a car out of spaghetti... You should have seen her face when I drove pasta.
— rpncritchlow, My girlfriend bet me I couldn't build a car out of spaghetti...
spaghettiCarbuildDrivePasta
Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail.
— Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs on Failure
DreamsDreamingactActingActionDriveActions For A Better LifeFailureWillingnesswillingness to failwilling to failFailingRisk TakingriskingInspirationalMotivational
What's the holy grail between somebody taking action or not? It's one word: certainty.
— Tony Robbins, Tony Robbins: The Magic Of Visualization (Law of Attraction)
CertainlyMindsetBeliefMomentumDrive
There have always been points where I struggled or felt inadequate while too much of that is unhealthy I think it drives you.
— Anna Kendrick, Anna Kendrick Interview
strengthDrivemotivation
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.
— Lou Gehrig, Stanley Cup Final Game 7: Top 10 Motivational Sports Speeches of All Time
Motivational SpeechesMotivational QuotesDriveDetermination
When you're part of a team, you stand up for your teammates. Your loyalty is to them. You protect them through good and bad, because they'd do the same for you.
— Yogi Berra, The 17 Most Inspiring Sports Speeches You've Ever Heard
MotivationalSports QuotesSpeechesmotivationDrive
The key is not the will to win. Everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
— Bobby Knight, 13 Motivational Sports Quotes from Olympic Coaches
motivational sports quotesMotivational SportsDriveDetermination
To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you’re not, pretend you are
— Gary Mack, Mind Gym
motivational sports quotesmotivationSportsDrive
The desire to succeed needs to be stronger than the fear of failure.
Sports Quotesmotivational sports quotesmotivationDriveSuccess
I find that fear and not wanting to take risks, and staying too comfortable makes people wait. They’ll say, ‘I’ll wait until this happens, I’ll wait until I go to film school, I’ll wait until I have all the money, I’ll wait until they ask me.’ Don’t wait for permission. Seek without permission. There’s nothing to wait for. There’s no one coming. There’s nothing coming to do this for you. You have to do it yourself.
— Ava DuVernay, Balls of Steel
FearRiskDriveCourage
It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
— Dr. Suess, The Lorax
PotentialAmbitionDriveDreams
I will not fail so you can be comfortable.
— The Last Five Years, If I Didn't Believe In You
LyricsMusicalAmbitionDriveDreams
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Canada bullied into complying with U.S. demands in TPP
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Problems? Oh, the Trans-Pacific Partnership has a few! Read about them all in the new series The Trouble with the TPP.
This weekend, former Research in Motion co-CEO Jim Balsillie wrote a must-read opinion piece in The Globe and Mail on the TPP. Balsillie makes a compelling case for how Canadian IP policy has failed in light of decisions to consistently cave to foreign pressures:
"Starting in the 1980s, Canadian policy makers and politicians blindly bought the narrative lobbied by foreign corporations, first in the pharmaceutical industry and then across all sectors, that stronger IP protection would lead to more domestic innovation and prosperity.
Three decades later, our pharma R&D has declined dramatically and drug prices for Canadian consumers are among the highest in the world. Our largest technology companies are much smaller now than 10 years ago and we have zero growth in innovation outputs over the past 30 years.
We should have learned our lesson by now, and yet the same outdated thinking from the 1980s is back on display from today's TPP proponents: Focus on aligning our domestic IP laws with the U.S. system and hope for the best. TPP needs to be assessed not for its legal purity or alignment to U.S. laws, but for the economic impacts colonial IP policies have on Canada. After all, Canada has aligned its laws with the United States both directly and indirectly in several international treaties over the past three decades, and our innovation performance always faltered thereafter."
The Trouble with the TPP series has already reviewed how the TPP offers more of the same through policies such as copyright term extension and locking in extended patent protections. The agreement also addresses IP enforcement and border measures, just months after Canada changed its rules to provide more protections and enforcement.
For example, Article 18.76 of the TPP seeks to expand the power of customs officials by granting them the right to initiate border measures without court oversight, even for goods that are in-transit (ie. not destinated to stay within the country). The in-transit issue was a major source of U.S. lobbying during the debate over Bill C-8, Canada's anti-counterfeiting bill. Canada ultimately excluded in-transit shipments from the ambit of the bill with the government arguing that "our government doesn't believe taxpayers should be on the hook for the cost of seizing counterfeit products that are destined for the United States that do not threaten health or safety."
The U.S. hoped to reverse Bill C-8 through the TPP. In-transit seizures are mandated in the agreement, but footnote 122 in the TPP states:
"As an alternative to this subparagraph, a Party shall instead endeavour to provide, if appropriate and with a view to eliminating international trade in counterfeit trademark goods or pirated copyright goods, available information to another Party in respect of goods that it has examined without a local consignee and that are transhipped through its territory and destined for the territory of the other Party, to inform that other Party's efforts to identify suspect goods upon arrival in its territory."
With the "endeavour to provide" requirement, this provision appears to be another best efforts provision that is not a strict requirement. Yet the U.S. wanted a clear requirement from Canada and apparently demanded a side letter between the two countries:
"Each government shall provide to the other, on a semi-annual basis, a compilation of notifications provided to the other government's customs administration under footnote 122 of Article 18.76.5(c), highlighting description and quantity of the suspected infringing goods. Finally, representatives of both governments shall meet upon the request of the other government to discuss any aspect of this agreement.
I have the honor to propose that this letter and your letter of confirmation in reply, equally valid in English and French, shall constitute an agreement between our two Governments, subject to dispute settlement under Chapter 28 of the TPP Agreement, which shall enter into force on the date of entry into force of the TPP Agreement as between Canada and the United States."
In other words, the Canadian obligation is not optional. The U.S. is requiring Canada to provide a report card every six months on its customs activities, meet on the issue whenever the U.S. demands, and face the possibility of a dispute settlement complaint for failing to comply with these rules. While some might view this as a modest requirement, the U.S. does not require similar reports from anyone else.
Rather, consistent with the history articulated in Balsillie's piece, Canada is once again bullied into complying with U.S. demands on intellectual property laws and enforcement.
This piece originally appeared on Michael Geist's blog and is reprinted with permission.
Photo: flickr/ Jimmy Emerson, DVM
Canada failed to advance tech sector through TPP side agreements
Why did Canada fail to make digital inroads in TPP countries when most other countries did?
False positive: TPP net neutrality rules lack enforceability and impact
One of the TPP's selling points has been that it helps preserve and "open and free Internet." However, upon close examination, it doesn't advance the issue at all.
Benefits from e-commerce provisions in TPP actually non-existent
A closer look into the "benefits" from the e-commerce provisions in the TPP reveal they are pretty non-existent. Find out why here.
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Coins from Bahrain
Coins of Type: Twenty Five Fils
Twenty Five Fils, Coin Type from Bahrain - detailed information
Twenty Five Fils, Coin Type from Bahrain (issued 1965 - )
Twenty Five Fils
The Bahraini Dinar was introduced as a currency in 1965, six years before Bahrain gained full independence; it replaced the Gulf Rupee at a rate of 10 rupees = 1 dinar. The Dinar is subdivided into 1,000 Fils (the singular form is also Fils); hence it is usually represented with three decimal places denoting the Fils. The 25 Fils (0.025 Dinar) coin is currently the third smallest one in circulation after the 10 Fils and 5 Fils, because the 1 Fils coin was only issued in 1965 and 1966 and it no longer circulates.
The 1965 issue (and a 1983 commemorative silver) were smaller in diameter, while later coins were made larger. Ever since their first issue, 25 fils coins have been made from cupronickel (copper-nickel allow). Some silver 25 fils coins have also been issued as non-circulating legal tender.
First type (1965 only):
Within a circle in the middle, a palm tree. Around above, حُكُومَة البَحرَي (Government of Bahrain). Below, the date in Arabic numerals in Common Era (to the left) and Hijri year (to the right) divided by a dash: ١٣٨٥ - ١٩٦٥.
Second type:
Within a circle, an ancient image (seal from the Dilmun civilization representing a human and an animal figure). Around above, دولة البحرين (State of Bahrain, 1992, 2000) or مملكة البحرين (Kingdom of Bahrain, 2002 and later). On the two sides, the date in Common Era (to the left) and Hijri year (to the right). Around below, STATE OF BAHRAIN (1992, 2000) or KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN (2002 and later).
Value in Arabic numerals ٢٥ (25) at the top. Below, the denomination فلسا (fils). Around below, BAHRAIN.
Second type (1992 and later):
At centre of a circle surrounded by a chain link border, the value 25 partly obscured by the boxed denomination: فلس (fils).
Milled
All Coins of Type: Twenty Five Fils (15)
Twenty Five Fils 1965 11,262,000 حُكُومَة البَحرَين ١٣٨٥ - ١٩٦٥
Twenty Five Fils 1992 unknown STATE OF BAHRAIN دولة البحرين مـ 1992 هـ 1412
Twenty Five Fils 2002 unknown KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN 1423 2002 مملكة البحرين
Twenty Five Fils 2010 (Silver Proof) 500 KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN 1431 2010 مملكة البحرين
American Bullion Inc. - Free Gold Guide
Twenty Five Fils: Details
Sub-types
Twenty Five Fils (small)
Twenty Five Fils (large)
Twenty Five Fils (large, silver)
25 (x Fils)
Medal Alignment (Axis 0)
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America’s Escape Game – Pandemic [Review]
28 December 2016 21 June 2017 by Lisa Spira, posted in America's Escape Game, Orlando, Reviews
Curing Ebola in an hour or so.
Date played: November 14, 2016
Price: $35 per ticket
In Pandemic, we needed to stop an infectious disease from destroying the planet. We took over where the scientists investigating it had left off (or died off).
The overall game had a stark medical feel. It felt a bit like a slightly industrial, poorly lit doctor’s office. It didn’t look bad but wasn’t much to look at either.
Pandemic’s puzzles relied heavily on busy work. Once we’d figured out how to solve something, we had many minutes to go before completing the solution. At least five separate puzzles all required this type of repetitious execution.
Pandemic included one dated newspaper-style puzzle that played more like an elementary school reading comprehension exam than an adventure puzzle game.
Pandemic included one particularly exciting interaction that we hadn’t seen until we visited Orlando.
The game flowed logically and smoothly.
Many of the puzzles involved busywork rather than progressive discovery.
One prop was badly jammed and the hint to reinvestigate it was delivered with unnecessary condescension.
Image via America’s Escape Game
Asking for one hint resulted in heavy-handed followup hinting. We found this frustrating because we were already back on the right track and it was simply taking time to execute on something that was tedious by design.
Should I play America’s Escape Game’s Pandemic?
Pandemic was a competently designed escape room; the puzzles flowed logically from start to finish.
The set wasn’t particularly exciting, but the gritty environment added a little urgency to our mission.
In late 2016, the game felt dated. Much of the puzzle difficulty was in the execution, not the solution.
Pandemic was perfectly passable. There’s plenty here for new players to enjoy. However, more experienced players shouldn’t expect to be wowed.
That was the thing with Pandemic. There wasn’t a lot wrong with it, but there also wasn’t anything special.
Book your hour with America’s Escape Game’s Pandemic, and tell them that the Room Escape Artist sent you.
Full disclosure: America’s Escape Game provided media discounted tickets for this game.
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Rotary Club of Glen Eira Privacy Policy
Rotary Club of Glen Eira
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Writing in the Shadow of Doom…
Feeling even more of a Lunatic in the Wilderness today. I figured I would lay this latest twist out so you can see just how frustrating and capricious this business is. I’m used to bad breaks: My first meetings to discuss the sale of The Darkness That Comes Before were cancelled because of 9/11. The second because of the SARS outbreak. And the financial crisis happened pretty much the instant Chris Weitz found someone willing to invest in the pilot for a cable serialization of The Prince of Nothing. I’ve managed to persevere, nonetheless.
As you know, I’ve been bumming because of the absolute absence of any reviews for Disciple of the Dog. To be blunt, this quite simply means the book is doomed, at least here in Canada. In an effort to deny me any targets for my blamethrower, my agent just contacted me with Penguin’s review-copy mailing list. Apparently all these places received copies: The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Ottawa Citizen, The Winnepeg Free Press, The Edmonton Journal, The Calgary Herald, The Montreal Gazette, The Vancouver Sun, The Chronicle Herald, The Time’s Colonist, The Walrus, and over thirty other different media outlets, including websites.
Now, I appreciate that it’s a numbers game, but when I think of all those review editors and producers each looking at the book, then placing it on the freebee pile with a shrug–all of them!–I realize that I am ruly truly writing in the shadow of doom. There’s a reason why midlist authors seem to linger for only so long before disappearing altogether: the madness of modern media driven culture is that you’re not deemed important unless you are deemed important.
Obviously my name didn’t ring any bells, which is to say, even though all these folks are the gatekeepers of the Canadian writing scene, they know absolutely nothing about me. Now I can understand this happening in a place like America. Whenever my friends or family start lampooning Americans for knowing so little about Canada I always remind them just how monstrously big the USA is: Americans can’t even keep up with what’s going on in their own country, let alone follow events in a country with a smaller economy than California. The media mountain is so much steeper and taller in the US.
But media in Canada are, like, way small, man. Like knolls in a farmer’s field. You would think that out of all those outlets, at least one would wonder whether I was, you know, at least kind of interesting. I guess not.
Compare this situation with the Canada Council for Arts grant application I filled out a couple years ago (on the advice of Rob Sawyer). For years now, I’ve joked about how the vast bulk of ‘Canadian Literature’ can be described as ‘extended meditations on the quotidian minutae of post-colonial, prairie/urban, gay/straight, Canadian life.’ I literally used this as a recipe for pitching a novel, and lo and behold, without so much as a call or a how-do-you-do? I received a cheque for $20,000 in the mail a few months later (and so Light, Time, and Gravity was born).
So, on the one hand, I pitch the status quo on a lark, and I get rewarded with a bunch of taxpayer dough. On the other, I actually do something different, actually try something critical and original, and I’m pretty much ignored, especially by those who make the most noise about being critical and original.
The pigeonhole has no bottom, believe you me. I used to be so naive as to think I could climb out, but now I’m starting to think that it swallows everyone in the end. I wonder about all the other cranks and crackpots out there, about all the other sparks that have been snuffed by relentless inattention. It’s no accident that eulogies are so filled with cliches.
After all, it’s neurophysiology that I’m up against more than any passing cultural bigotry. The brain pigeonholes everything it encounters to better lower its caloric load, to economize. We sort far more than we ponder. Novelty, when we encounter it, is either confused for something old and stupid or comes across as errant noise. Things were this way long before corporations and capital.
So I find myself wondering what I should do. Maybe I should just resign myself to my fate, numb the pain, mellow those revenge fantasies. Become a fatalist.
But then there’s nothing like bitterness to keep that fire scorching your belly. And there’s nothing I fear more than becoming old and complacent. Only the well-groomed don’t have chips on their shoulders.
15 Comments to “Writing in the Shadow of Doom…”
They would have recognized the name if the ‘R.’ had not been omitted from the cover. I’m only half-joking.
Also, there was an article in Science today which deals with the neuroanatomical basis of the differences between individuals in their capacity to introspect about the correctness of their solution to a problem.
Nfora says:
A journalist friend of mine suggested that you try sending to weeklies i nstead of dailies. They’re willing to review more things, though their distribution is smaller.
Dave M. says:
If they can’t hear you in the stands, you have to streak the field.
I’d suggest taping a copy of Disciple of the Dog, fig leaf style, over your man-bits before setting out.
In solidarity with Jorge, I am also only half-joking.
Well, if it’s any consolation Scott I’ve noticed that Chapters/Indigo chain stores here in Edmonton have at least been giving Disciple a decent showing… though its always in the mystery or general fic section of course; pretty distant from where the more casual PoN or even Neuropath fans are likely to spot it.
Daniel Krut says:
what I miss from working in media is getting free books from publishers but I did my obligation by doing a fair review
Cantabile says:
Popularity requires appeal to the masses, and as the masses tend to be mentally incompetent by most standards popularity doesn’t mean shit.
Fast food will always outsell fine cuisine: It’s cheap, easy, and requires nothing from the eater. Fine cuisine is expensive, requires time, and thought for appreciation of the aroma, the artistry of the dishes, how the layers of flavors and textures are interwoven ingeniously.
99.99% of people will have eaten at McDonalds, while a mere fraction of a percent will have dined at a restaurant like El Bulli. But whereas that 99.99% will answer “oh yeah, McDonalds is alright,” that fraction of a percent will say how El Bulli was an EPIPHANY.
Cheesy food analogies aside: Better to psychologically pierce a few readers to the marrow than to simply brush the skin of a hundred thousand. I have friends who are writers who look up to you as a role model. Not Tolstoy, not Tolkein, nor Shakespeare, but YOU.
I myself had thought I’d sampled every flavor that literature had to offer, until I read Prince of Nothing. Your work wasn’t simply taste; it redefined my palette itself. While authors that provide light amusement will always outsell you, who gives a shit? Their novels are simply a two minute handjob from a herpes-infested whore, whereas yours provide many readers with a once-in-a-life-time relationship.
Fuck mediocrity, with Bakker it’s sublimity that is on the menu.
damn, i would’ve watched a cable serialization
There’s a reason why midlist authors seem to linger for only so long before disappearing altogether: the madness of modern media driven culture is that you’re not deemed important unless you are deemed important.
You need to gin up more controversy with your books. Dan Brown sold a mediocre-but-page-turning bestseller by saying that Jesus was mortal and married, and the conservative wing of the Catholic Church was out to get anyone saying so. The implications of Neuroscience are pretty bizarre and frightening, but too cerebral for most potential readers.
Or you could write a horror novel. You do have a gift for writing some fucked-up, gut-wrenching scenes.
More seriously, I’m wondering if it’s a genre disconnect. You have a least a decent number of fans, but most of them are Prince of Nothing fans who might not cross over into the thriller genre. I myself checked out Neuropath only because I was already a fan of your fantasy, and that wasn’t until long after the book had come out.
Without that, you just don’t have much of a fan-base to spread the word-of-mouth around, and it doesn’t sound like the publisher is willing to go all-out on a promoting campaign (the way they do with some books, like what they did with The Passage).
In an effort to deny me any targets for my blamethrower, my agent just contacted me with Penguin’s review-copy mailing list. Apparently all these places received copies: The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Post, The Ottawa Citizen, The Winnepeg Free Press, The Edmonton Journal, The Calgary Herald, The Montreal Gazette, The Vancouver Sun, The Chronicle Herald, The Time’s Colonist, The Walrus, and over thirty other different media outlets, including websites.
That sucks. The American publisher won’t drop you because of this, will they?
So I find myself wondering what I should do.
Paint sunflowers?
I bet that sucked for that artist…
I think Brett’s got an idea, but I bet the idea Jesus was married had more impact than the idea he was mortal – tugging at those social connections with the ‘controversy’. Even the idea of mortality is a bit cerebral.
Really man, you know your a ninja, a subversive. That books gunna get it’s sarin laced ideas out to a bunch of folk. Which part of you is complaining? The part that wants food and shelter – stuff the $20,000 check in it’s mouth! The other part? Your gunna hit some targets! In terms of reaching an audience your supposed poverty is to many of us luxury! Cue some sort of pythonesque sketch about getting up in the morning, killing ourselves, walking ten miles with no legs then writing stuff no one will ever print…and we liked it!
Good luck, your doing (my) well!
Dude, chill on the fatalism. I’m not in the writing scene, so you know better than I can if the time scale covered and lack of attention. But I’m sure (for reasons that are no doubt unsubstantiated and in no way empirically grounded) that White-Luck will do better. For what it is worth, I think ‘Disciple is totally awesome. In fact, I am now going back to reading it.
Rub our noses in it that you’ve got it, will you… 🙂
Well, since you *asked.* Only because I happened to be in the UK (none of my Aussie friends have it yet, I can hear the baying for my blood from here!). I won’t spoil it for you though—gloating is enough 😀
Dave D. says:
My only question is would you rather have me drive to Montreal and buy a copy, or wait until November and pick it up here, in Vermont?
I, too, would watch a cable version of PoN. Though, if it was on SyFy, maybe not.
The Fantasizer says:
Well, your publisher should have sent out review copies to some book bloggers, you’d certainly get some reviews then and I’m sorry but all these people review copies were sent out to are absolutely the wrong kind of people to send out books from Scott Bakker to. Does your publisher even know what it is that you write?
Robert Lamb says:
I’m reading “Disciple” right now and I’m planning to blog about it for Tor.com when I’m finished. I’m interested in conducting an oh-so-short interview with you about science in your work. Do you happen to have any personal bandwidth for that? Twenty minutes tops if we do it over the phone, otherwise I’m happy to shoot you questions via email. And you can review your quotes prior to publication. ~rl rlamb(at)howstuffworks.com
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Neighbors show up in force to protest Boy Scouts course
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COURTESY PHOTO | Scouts on a rope obstacle course.
After hearing nearly an hour of objections from neighbors and others, the Riverhead Planning Board on Thursday afternoon decided to adjourn to May 2 a public hearing on a controversial proposal to built a “COPE course” on a section of the Baiting Hollow Boy Scouts Camp that is only about 100 feet from homes.
The COPE (Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience) course is a series of 12 rope and wire climbing devices that are hung from twelve 35-foot high telephone poles. One of the devices is a zip line.
The various challenges are designed to meet Boy Scouts of America standards, and are based on attaining seven goals outlined by the Boy Scouts of America: teamwork, communication, trust, leadership, decision making, problem solving and self-esteem, according to the Boy Scouts.
More than 300 Scouts camps across the country have COPE courses, scouting officials said.
But residents of Silver Beech Lane questioned why the Scouts chose to put the course right near their homes, when the Scouts camp is almost 90 acres in size.
Bob Oleksiak, whose home is closest to the proposed course, read a letter from his wife, Mary, who was present, but he said “would be crying” if she read it herself.
Ms. Oleksiak, who has cancer, said that if built, she would see the course from every window in her home, instead of the nature and wildlife she sees now.
“After cancer, I just want to rest and recuperate. This will no longer be a place to heal and recover, it will be my cause of death,” her letter read.
Other neighbors, including former town Councilman George Bartunek and Joe Van de Wetering, said they have no objection to the COPE, just to the proposed location.
“This is not a NIMBY issue,” Mr. Van de Wetering said. “This is an ‘in your face’ issue.”
Fran Rosenfeld, who lives next to the Oleksiaks, said she would never be able to sell her house if the COPE course is behind it.
Richard Amper, speaking on his own behalf and not on behalf of the Long Island Pine Barrens Society nonprofit he helps lead, said the presentation by the Boy Scout representatives at Thursday’s hearing made hardly any mention of the neighbors.
“I can’t figure out why the Boy Scouts are constantly at war with their neighbors,” he said.
The Baiting Hollow camp many years ago proposed to install a cell tower that neighbors opposed, and the Schiff Scout Reserve on Wading River-Manor Road had proposed selling their camp and allowing it to be cleared for a golf course many years ago. Neither proposal came to fruition.
Several other speakers, including former supervisor Phil Cardinale, who is representing the Oleksiaks as an attorney, said the proposal should require a special permit from the Town Board before the Planning Board can vote on the site plan because it constitutes an expansion of a “pre-existing, non-conforming use,” meaning that the use existed before zoning but doesn’t conform to its present zoning, which is residential.
A town planning report from environmental planner Joe Hall said that proposal doesn’t constitute an expansion of the pre-existing use, merely an accommodation for enhancing the existing scout camp.
Mr. Cardinale disagreed, saying that when he was supervisor, projects that were proposed on the non-profit Little Flower campus, which also is a non-conforming, pre-existing use, needed special permits from the Town Board.
He said that if the Scouts are allowing non-Scouts groups to use the course for a fee, that would constitute a new use.
Mr. Grimaldi said in an interview that the Scouts do charge a fee to school and youth groups, but do so only to recover their costs in having an instructor present. He said the course is never used without a Scout instructor present.
Councilman John Dunleavy and others said they felt the Scouts should be made to agree in writing that they would not rent the space out to non-Scout groups if the COPE course is approved.
Mr. Cardinale said COPE courses are used be non-Scouts groups. He referred to a quote from the Baiting Hollow camp’s director Jim Grimaldi in a News-Review article about the COPE course, in which Mr. Grimaldi said the course would also be used by school and youth groups, as well as to information from national Boy Scouts web sites saying that COPE courses are routinely rented out to non-Scout groups.
John Roe, the attorney for Suffolk County Boy Scouts, said he could not commit to that restriction without discussing it with Scouts leaders first.
But he said the Scouts camp at Baiting Hollow has been there for 87 years and “we tried to be a good neighbor during that time. We think the impact from this is going to minimal.”
He said the Scoust camp is only used from July 1 to the end of August for weekday campers, but it is used on weekends sometimes beyond those months.
Mr. Grimaldi said the site in question was chosen because it is the only site on the camp that is flat enough to put the course.
Mr. Roe said the camp property is like a “U” in that it is high on the east and west ends and low in the middle, where Fresh Pond is.
Bill Dunn, the vice president for program at the Suffolk County Scouts, said the COPE course is not an obstacle course in which the objective is to complete it quickly. It’s a course where instructors give directions to scouts who then carry them out.
“This is very disciplined,” he said. The COPE course has consistently been suggested by scout leaders as something the Baiting Hollow camp lacks.
The course is not open to anyone who shows up, he said, and when it is not being used, the various climbing challenges are not reachable without a ladder.
But Mr. Oleksiak said the course will not be secured, because people could enter from private property, and those people could bring a ladder.
Planning Board member Ed Densieski said the board would adjourn the hearing to their next meeting, which is at 7 p.m. May 2.
Prior to the hearing, residents had asked that the date of the hearing be shifted to a night meeting. The Planning Board declined to do so, but said it could have the day time hearing on Thursday and then adjourn it to the night meeting.
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Anti-inflammatory medicinal agent
A61P29 - Non-central analgesic, antipyretic or antiinflammatory agents, e.g antirheumatic agents; Non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)
A61K9/20 - Pills, lozenges or tablets
A61K31/5415 -
FIELD: pharmacy.
SUBSTANCE: invention proposes a medicinal agent for oral administration possessing an anti-inflammatory effect. Medicinal agent is made as a solid dosed formulation for oral administration that comprises meloxicam as an active substance, stearic acid or stearate as a slipping substance, maltodextrin as a binding agent, croscarmellose sodium salt as a disintegrating agent and dextrin as a filling agent taken in the definite ratio of components. Invention provides enhancing the biological availability of agent and improving its consumption properties. Invention can be used in the development of a medicinal agent made as a solid dosed formulation for oral administration possessing an anti-inflammatory effect.
EFFECT: improved and valuable pharmaceutical properties of agent.
10 cl, 11 tbl, 32 ex
The present invention relates to medicine, namely to the pharmaceutical industry, and can be used to create medicines made in the form of solid dosage forms for oral administration, which has anti-inflammatory action.
Currently there is a large Arsenal of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). Interest in their development is related to the fact that NSAIDs have anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antipyretic effects and bring relief to patients with relevant symptoms (inflammation, pain, fever), which are observed in many diseases.
Substance meloxicam is a highly effective, low-toxicity drug of a new generation of NSAIDs, has minimal gastrointestinal action.
Known tablets Movalis® company Boehringer Ingelheim, containing meloxicam in the amount of 7.5 mg and 15 mg per tablet, and other ingredients are: sodium citrate, lactose, microcrystalline cellulose, polyvidone, silicon dioxide colloidal anhydride, crospovidone, magnesium stearate (reference Vidal drugs of Russia", Attraversare, 2003, strb-594). These tablets include microcrystalline cellulose, which affects the processes of dissolution and raspadaemosti tablets, reduces the bioavailability of the drug.
Known tablet with meloxicam, obtained by direct pressing (WO 99/49867, 27.03.1998, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma). The composition of this tablet also includes microcrystalline cellulose, which is slowing down the processes of dissolution and raspadaemosti tablets, reduces the bioavailability of the drug.
Closest to the claimed means the technical essence and the achieved result is a well-known tool that is described in the international application WO 02/085331 from 21.04.2001, the applicant Boehringer Ingelheim International (Germany).
Known means made in the form of tablets which contains meloxicam 1 mg - 20 mg, or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt to a tablet weight of 20 mg to 800 mg, the binder is a starch, in particular modified, or several varieties, moving, in particular silicon dioxide, and a filler, in particular dextrose in an amount of from 40 to 80%.
However, contained in the composition of the tablets starch reduces its bioavailability, and the totality of its components is not possible to obtain a smooth surface, which impairs the consumer properties of the tablets.
The problem solved by the invention is the creation of anti-inflammatory drugs, made in solid dosage form for oral administration, containing as active substance meloxicam with high bioavailability and improved and consumer properties, expanding the Arsenal of anti-inflammatory action.
The technical result from the use of the invention is to improve the bio availability of anti-inflammatory drugs in solid dosage form for oral administration, contains meloxicam as the active substance, and in improving its consumer properties.
This result is achieved by the fact that anti-inflammatory drug, is made in the form of solid dosage forms for oral administration containing as active substance meloxicam, moving, a binder and a filler according to the invention as a binder it contains maltodextrin, as moving it contains a salt of stearic acid or stearic acid, as a filler it contains dextrin and further comprises a disintegrator, in particular the sodium salt croscarmellose, with the following content, wt.%:
Meloxicam - 4,0-25,0
Disintegrator - sodium salt croscarmellose - 0,5-7,0
Binder is maltodextrin - 5,0-20,0
Moving - salt of stearic acid
or stearic acid - 0,3-1,0
Filler - dextrin - 100
Preferably, as salts of stearic acid using magnesium or to llevue salt.
It is preferable that the proposed tool is made in the form of tablets, or microtablets, or pellets, or granules.
It is preferable that the mass of the tablet is 0.1 g and 0.2 g
It is preferable that the size of microtablets is 1.5-3 mm.
It is preferable that the size of the pellets or granules is 0.25 to 3.0 mm
It is preferable that the proposed tool, made in the form of tablets or microtablets, or pellets, or granules coated polymer based.
Preferably, the membrane mass relative to the mass of the nucleus is, wt.%: for tablets 5-13, for microtablets 5-13, for pellets 15-25, granules 25-40.
It is preferable that a number of microtablets, or pellets, or granules may be placed in a pharmaceutically acceptable capsule for oral administration.
Preferably, the capsule is filled with microtablets, or pellets, or granules in such a quantity that the concentration of active ingredient equivalent to therapeutic dose.
The proposed ratio of these ingredients is found experimentally and is optimal.
That the proposed remedy as a binder contains maltodextrin as a filler - dextrin, as the moving - salt of stearic acid or stearic acid, and additionally who will win the disintegrator - sodium salt croscarmellose, allows to obtain the drug, which has high biological availability. The high bioavailability of the proposed funds due to the synergistic effect, which is achieved due to the simultaneous introduction of the proposed composition of these components at the given value.
In addition, the tablet is made of the proposed facilities, has an important consumer property - smooth surface.
Floor offer a means of shell-based polymer is technologically feasible and allows you to mask an unpleasant taste.
The implementation of the proposed funds in the form of microtablets, granules or pellets and placing them in a pharmaceutically acceptable capsule allows you to more evenly distribute the active substance in the gastrointestinal tract.
The content of active substance in the proposed tool is less than 4.0 wt.% leads to a decrease in therapeutic effect, and the increase in the content of the active substance more to 25.0 wt.% leads to side effects.
The method of obtaining the proposed funds in the form of tablets or microtablets.
The estimated number of meloxicam is mixed with part of the cage - sodium salt croscarmellose, the binder is maltodextrin and filler - dextrin. Recip is nnow the mixture is moistened with water. From a mixture of receive granules, which are dried at a temperature of 55°With, calibrate, optivault mixture moving calcium stearate and the remaining part of the cage and tabletirujut. At the core of tablets or microtablets may be caused to the shell component 5-13 wt.% from the mass of the nucleus.
The method of obtaining the proposed funds in the form of pellets or granules.
The estimated number of all components are mixed, the resulting mixture is moistened. The resulting mixture is get pellets or granules. At the core of the pellets or granules may be applied to the shell component of 15-25 wt.% and 25-40 wt.% by weight of the core pellets or granules, respectively.
Received microtablets, or pellets, or granules can be placed in a pharmaceutically acceptable capsule, for example made of gelatin, in such a quantity that the concentration of active ingredients equivalent to therapeutic dose.
In the described ways of obtaining the proposed tool uses meloxicam that meets the requirements of BP; the sodium salt of croscarmellose, meets the requirements of BP or Eur.Ph, maltodextrin, meets the requirements of BP or Eur.Ph, calcium stearate, meets the requirements of THE 6-09-4233-76, dextrin, meets the requirements of BP or Eur.Ph.
The following are specific examples of the manufacture of the proposed funds in the form of tablet is or microtablets.
Example 1.
Take 25,0 kg of meloxicam, mixed with 4.2 kg of sodium salt of croscarmellose, 20,0 kg maltodextrin and dextrin to 100 kg. Mass of hydrate water and granularit. The obtained granules are dried at a temperature of 55°With, calibrate, optivault mixture consisting of 1.0 kg of calcium stearate and 2.8 kg sodium salt croscarmellose, and tabletirujut. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Meloxicam - 25,0
Sodium salt croscarmellose - 7,0
Maltodextrin - 20,0
Calcium stearate - 1,0
Dextrin and 47.0
Take 25,0 kg of meloxicam, mixed with 0.3 kg of sodium salt of croscarmellose, 5,0 kg maltodextrin and dextrin to 100 kg. Mass of hydrate water and granularit. The obtained granules are dried at a temperature of 55°With, calibrate, optivault mixture consisting of 0.3 kg of calcium stearate and 0.2 kg of sodium salt of croscarmellose, and tabletirujut. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Maltodextrin - 5,0
Calcium stearate and 0.3
Dextrin - 69,2
Is carried out as example 1, only take 5,0 kg maltodextrin, 0.3 kg of calcium stearate. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
p> Is carried out as example 1, only take 0.3 kg of calcium stearate. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Is carried out as example 1, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 20,0 kg maltodextrin, 1.0 kg of calcium stearate. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Meloxicam - 4,0
As example 2, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 20,0 kg maltodextrin, 1.0 kg of calcium stearate. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Dextrin is 74.5
As example 2, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 1.0 kg of calcium stearate. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Carried out as example 2, only take 1.0 kg of calcium stearate. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Alicia stearate - 1,0
Take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, mixed with 4.2 kg of sodium salt of croscarmellose, 20,0 kg maltodextrin and dextrin to 100 kg. Mass of hydrate water and granularit. The obtained granules are dried at a temperature of 55°With, calibrate, optivault mixture consisting of 0.3 kg of calcium stearate and 2.8 kg sodium salt croscarmellose, and tabletirujut. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Received the tablet is covered with a shell-based polymer, which is 13 wt.% by weight of the tablet.
Example 10.
Carried out as example 1, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 5,0 kg maltodextrin, 0.3 kg of stearic acid. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Stearic acid - 0,3
Carried out as example 2, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 20,0 kg maltodextrin. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Is carried out as example 1, only take 5,0 kg maltodextrin. Tablet weight and eat the following composition, wt.%:
Received the tablet is covered with a shell-based polymer, which is 5 wt.% by weight of the tablet.
Carried out as example 2, only take 20,0 kg maltodextrin, 1.0 kg of calcium stearate. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Carried out as example 2, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 0.3 kg of magnesium stearate. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Magnesium stearate - 0,3
Carried out as example 2, only take 20,0 kg maltodextrin, 0.3 kg of magnesium stearate. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Carried out as example 1, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 5,0 kg maltodextrin. Tablet mass has the following composition, wt.%:
D is xtren - 83,0
The following are specific examples of the manufacture of the proposed funds in the form of pellets or granules.
Take 25,0 kg of meloxicam, mixed with 7.0 kg of the sodium salt of croscarmellose, 20,0 kg maltodextrin, 1.0 kg of calcium stearate, dextrin up to 100 kg and moisturize. The resulting mass is get pellets or granules. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Take 25,0 kg of meloxicam, mixed with 0.5 kg of sodium salt of croscarmellose, 5,0 kg maltodextrin, 0.3 kg of calcium stearate, mix and moisturize. The resulting mass is get pellets or granules. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
As example 17, only take 5,0 kg maltodextrin and 0.3 kg of calcium stearate. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
As example 17, only take 0.3 kg of calcium stearate. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Three-the first salt croscarmellose - 7,0
As example 17, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 20,0 kg maltodextrin, 1.0 kg of calcium stearate. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
As example 18, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 1.0 kg of calcium stearate. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Carried out as example 18, only take 1.0 kg of calcium stearate. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Carried out as example 17, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, mixed with 4.2 kg of sodium salt of croscarmellose, 20,0 kg mA is Icodextrin. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
The obtained granules are covered with a shell-based polymer, which is 25 wt.% from the mass of the nucleus.
Carried out as example 17, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 5,0 kg maltodextrin, 0.3 kg of stearic acid. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
The obtained granules are covered with a shell-based polymer, which is 40 wt.% by weight of the tablet.
Carried out as example 18, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 20,0 kg maltodextrin. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
As example 17, only take 5,0 kg maltodextrin. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
The obtained pellets are covered with a shell-based polymer, which is 15 wt.% by weight I had RA.
Carried out as example 18, only take 20,0 kg maltodextrin, 1.0 kg of calcium stearate. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Carried out as example 18, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 0.3 kg of magnesium stearate. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
The obtained pellets are covered with a shell-based polymer, which is 25 wt.% from the mass of the nucleus.
Carried out as example 18, only take 20,0 kg maltodextrin, 0.3 kg of magnesium stearate. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
Carried out as example 17, only take 4,0 kg of meloxicam, 5,0 kg maltodextrin. The resulting mass has the following composition, wt.%:
The determination of meloxicam in the proposed tool is carried out by spectrophotometric method.
Test the Oia microbiological purity of tablets obtained in examples 1-32, conducted in accordance with the requirements of the global Fund XI and Changes No. 3, category 3A. The obtained results are in line with regulatory requirements.
Studies have been conducted to study the influence of physical factors such as temperature and light, on the tools described in examples 1-32.
After research it was found that the best storage conditions: in dry the dark place at a temperature not exceeding 25°C.
To determine the General toxic action and evidence of the effectiveness of the proposed drug were conducted its pre-clinical trials.
These tests were carried out on the basis of JSC "all-Russia scientific center for security biologically active substances", Kupavna, 2005
For testing of the proposed drug was presented in the form of tablets. Component content per tablet is presented in the table.
The composition of the proposed drug per tablet
Meloxicam - 7.5 mg
Sodium salt croscarmellose - 5.0 mg
Maltodextrin 10 mg
Calcium stearate - 1.0 mg
Dextrin - 76,5 mg
The amount of pre-clinical trials was determined by the Order of Ministry of health of Russia from 19.06.03 No. 267 "On approval of rules of good laboratory practice in the Russian Federation" and the "guidelines for the study of General toxic effect of pharmacological substances" (in Russian). "Manual on experimental (preclinical) study of new pharmacological substances". M., "Remedium", 2000, p.18-24).
The experiments were carried out on outbred rats of both sexes (rat from Rapolano, St. Petersburg, quality passport No. 15 dated 11.01.2005, weighing 150-160 g, age 13-14 weeks).
Before the Study the animals that meet the criteria for inclusion in the study were divided into groups using the method of randomization. Animals that do not meet the criteria for inclusion in the Study, were excluded from the Study during the quarantine.
During the Study, each animal was examined daily. The inspection consisted of evaluating the overall behavior and General condition of the animals. In the days of injecting drug examination was performed approximately 2 hours after injection.
In the list of registered indicators included the dynamics of body weight, water consumption and feed, blood pressure, heart rate (HR).
To determine indicators of acute toxicity of the proposed tool (pills, pounded the onyx mortar to a powder) was administered to rats of both sexes intragastrically in starch suspensions using atraumatic metal probe in increasing doses on Litchville-Wilcoxon signed. Control animals were injected starch suspension. The data presented in table 1.
The toxicity of the proposed means when a rat-males (mg/kg)
Dose, mg/kg 23.7 29.3 37.5 47.3 60.0
The effect Palo animals/total 0/6 2/6 5/6 5/6 6/6
LD50=40.3±3.5 mg/kg
LD16=23.7 mg/kg
Mortality of animals occurred at 1-4 day after a single injection of the drug on the background of the decrease of motor activity, tremor, haemorrhagic rash around the nose (in some animals), slovenliness, piloerection, the presence of melena. At the necropsy of dead animals were observed hemorrhagic erosions in the mucosa of the gastric body - on pinkish background mucosa were clearly distinguished multiple dark red foci. The contents of the stomach and intestines was dyed with blood.
Macroscopic changes in the other examined organs were missing.
In surviving animals of significant changes state and behavior were noted. Below are data on the effect of drugs on body weight of surviving animals.
The impact of the proposed remedies on the body weight of experimental animals (M±m, g)
The observation time Control The proposed tool
M F M F
Background 179.5±4.2 180.0±3.7 180.0±4.3 178.5±4.3
7 days 185.0±5.2 186.5±6.1 182.0±4.1 180.5±5.1
14 days 191.5±5.8 191.0±6.3 185.0±6.1 183.0±5.7
After the experiment, the animals were subjected to attanasio to determine the mass ratios of organs and pathological studies. Data on the mass ratios shown in table 3.
As follows from the table, significant differences of the mass coefficients of organs from animals from different experimental groups were observed.
Mass (�) organs of white rats (mg/100 g body weight, M±m)
MK The studied group and gender
Control The proposed tool
Heart 4.5±0.3 4.2±0.3 4.2±0.3 4.1±0.3
Lungs with trachea 9.8±0.4 9.6±0.3 9.6±0.3 8.9±0.5
The thymus 1.10±0.02 1.13±0.02 1.13±0.02 1.12±0.03
Liver 54.0±4.0 60.0±4.0 52.0±5.0 57.0±4.0
Spleen 4.2±0.4 4.3±0.4 4.3±0.4 4.6±0.4
Kidney 7.9±0.6 7.5±0.5 7.5±0.5 8.3±0.5
The adrenal glands 0.30±0.02 0.29±0.02 0.28±0.03 0.30±0.03
The brain 9.4±0.4 9.7±0.5 9.6±0.4 9.5±0.6
According to the autopsy and microscopic studies of the organs of the differences between the surviving animals and the control is not installed.
The coat was shiny, neat appearance. Foci of alopecia is not what was abudals. Allocation of natural holes were missing. The forelimbs and hind limbs intact. Deformation of the limbs were observed. The teeth were saved. Visible mucous membranes were pale, shiny, smooth.
Upon examination of the thoracic and abdominal cavities irregularities in the position of the internal organs were noted.
The pleura, pericardium and peritoneum were thin, shiny, smooth.
Thymus had a triangular shape, whitish color and moderately firm consistency.
Aortic diameter was uniform throughout. The intima of the aorta was smooth, shiny, whitish color. The size and shape of the heart unchanged.
The muscle of the heart was moderately dense, uniformly brownish color. Heart valves are thin, smooth, shiny. In the cavities of the heart contained a small amount of liquid blood.
Light at the opening of the chest was spadolini. The size and shape unchanged. The surface of the lungs had a uniform pale pink color. The lung tissue was fluffy to the touch. The lumen of the trachea and large bronchi was wide. Mucosa - shiny, pale pink, smooth.
Mucosa of the esophagus was shiny, smooth, pale color. The size and shape of the stomach unchanged. The lumen was filled with food content. The lumen of the duodenum 12 unchanged, mucous intestine b is La shiny, smooth, pale pink. The mucous membrane of the small intestine was also pale pink, shiny, smooth. The mucous membrane of the colon had a slightly grayish hue, was smooth and shiny.
The size and shape of the liver unchanged. The surface of the liver was smooth, uniform dark red color. The liver tissue at the incision was dark red. The liver capsule was thin, transparent. The consistency of the liver was normal density.
The shape of the pancreas without changes. Iron had lobed structure, pale pink color and moderately firm consistency.
The size and shape of the spleen intact. The surface of the spleen had a uniform dark cherry color, was smooth. The consistency of the spleen was moderately dense. In the context of organ stood out greyish small-cell follicles.
The size and shape of the kidney as unchanged. The capsule of the kidney can be easily removed. The surface was smooth, uniformly brownish-grayish color. In the context of organ distinct cortical and brain substance. The consistency of the kidneys was moderately tight.
The adrenal glands have a rounded form, whitish-yellow in color and moderately firm consistency. In the context of clearly stood out dark brown cerebral substance.
The bladder was filled with a transparent, pale urine. The mucous membrane is aciago bubble was smooth, shiny, pale color.
The lining of the brain were thin, transparent. The substance of the brain was slightly potowatami to the touch, the surface of the brain was smooth. In the frontal dimensions of ventricular enlargement were observed.
Thus, the obtained experimental data show that a single intragastric administration of the proposed means to rats of both sexes does not cause changes in behavior and General condition of the surviving animals, the mass ratios of the bodies relative to control animals, macroscopic changes in the brain, internal organs and endocrine laboratory animals, and is not accompanied by changes in the mucous membrane of the esophagus, stomach and intestines (the introduction).
Given the sensitivity of rodents and data obtained in the acute experiment, studies were conducted on rats with daily intragastric administration of drugs within 14 days at doses exceeding the maximum daily at 10 and 50 times (in active top). Conditions of the introduction corresponded described in the "Acute toxicity". Animals were identified integral indicators of the status and behavior, heart rate and blood pressure, basic biochemical, morphological composition of peripheral blood, the mass ratios of the bodies and their macro - and microscopy. During the observation period mortality of rats and pathological symptoms were observed. Part of the animals (5 animals of each sex from each experimental group) were abandoned after the introduction to the 14-day observation and determination of these parameters.
The impact of the proposed remedies on the body weight of Wistar rats, feed and water intake, systolic blood pressure and heart rate were studied within 14 days of administration. Each experimental group consisted of 15 animals of each sex.
The results were processed statistically using t-student test at p<=0,05.
The results obtained are presented in tables 4-8.
The state and behavior of animals from different groups treated with the proposed tool, did not differ from those of the control animals. Sex differences were not observed.
The impact of the proposed remedies on the dynamics of weight gain albino rats (M±m, g)
Time studies The experimental group
Control The proposed tool, 2.2 mg/kg The proposed tool, 11.0 mg/kg
M F M F M F
Background 184.0±3.3 180.5±2.7 182.5±2.9 179.5±3.3 181.0±2.6 178.0±3.1
7 days 195.0±4.5 189.5±3.4 193.0±4.1 190.4±4.3 193.2±3.5 188.5±4.3
14 days 206.0±5.3 203.0±4.1 204.5±5.2 199.0±5.4 205.0±5.4 Has 197.5±6.1
The impact of the proposed means for feed intake (M±m, g)
Background 20.0±1.0 20.0±2.0 20.0±2.0 21.0±1.0 19.5±1.5 20.0±2.0
14 days 23.0±2.0 22.0±2.0 22.5±1.5 21.0±2.0 22.0±2.0 23.5±2.0
The impact of the proposed funds for water consumption (M±m, ml)
As can be seen from the above tables, there were no differences in the dynamics of weight gain, feed and water intake between animals treated with the proposed tool, and control animals.
The impact of the proposed funds for systolic blood pressure white rats (mm Hg, M±m)
Background 126±12 139±13 142±17 132±13 140±15 138±14
14 days 118±11 127±9 136±9 128±11 134±7 124±10
The impact of the proposed remedies on the variation of white rats (BPM, M±m)
Background 354±24 372±27 334±22 342±30 366±39 388 24
14 days 420±36 419±31 351±41 384±41 418±41 412±32
As follows from the data presented above, significant changes from the level of blood pressure and heart rate in animals from all experimental groups were observed. Sex differences were not observed.
Table 9 presents data on the impact of the proposed funds for basic biochemical parameters of blood of white rats.
The impact of the proposed funds for basic biochemical parameters of blood
The analyzed indicators (M±m) The drug, mg/kg
Males, 14 days
Total protein, g/l 63±4 66±2 64±3
ACT, u/l 0.55±0.03 0.56±0.03 0.58±0.04
ALT, u/l 0.22±0.04 0.21±0.03 0.20±0.03
LDH, u/l 5.06±0.33 5.07±0.34 5.02±0.30
Alkaline phosphatase, u/l 0.71±0.09 0.69±0.10 0.68±0.10
Urea, mmol/l 5.28±0.26 5.18±0.22 5.24±0.24
Creatinine, mmol/l 0.10±0.02 0.11±0.03 0.11±0.02
Glucose, mmol/l 5.2±0.3 5.1±0.2 4.9±0.3
Total lipids, g/l 4.08±0.34 4.00±0.32 4.10±0.36
Cholesterol, mmol/l 1.66±0.24 1.62±0.32 1.72±0.22
The total bilirubin, mmol/l 12.6±0.6 12.4±0.4 12.4±0.4
Bilirubin is associated, mmol/l 3.3±0.4 3.1±0.2 3.4±0.3
Na, mmol/l 145±3 141±2 143±4
K, mmol/l 5.3±0.3 5.4±0.2 5.2±0.2
Control The proposed tool, 2.2 mg/kg Offer means the, 11.0 mg/kg
Females, 14 days
LDH, u/l 5.02±0.30 4,96±0.32 5.04±0.31
As can be seen from the data presented above, the fluctuations in the values of all the studied indices are within the physiological norm.
Thus, the proposed funds within 14 days no toxic effects on protein, carbohydrate, fat and electrolyte types of metabolism of white rats.
The impact of the proposed funds in the peripheral blood of white rats (M±m)
Hemoglobin, g/l 145±4 144±2 144±2
Erythrocytes, 1012/l 6.0±0.4 6.5±0.3 6.3±0.4
ESR, mm/h 4.1±0.2 4.0±0.3 4.0±0.4
Platelets, 109 /l 368±21 425±24 382±27
Leukocytes, 109/l 5.7±0.4 6.1±0.3 6.4±0.4
Stab neutrophils, % 1.02±0.03 1.08±0.04 1.04±0.03
Segmentgalerie neutrophils, % 16.0±6.3 24.3±7.9 21.7±5.5
Basophils, % 0 0 0
Eosinophils, % 2.5±0.3 2.0±0.3 2.0±0.3
Monocytes, % 5.0±0.3 4.7±0.4 4.8±0.3
Lymphocytes, % 74.3±1.7 72.8±1.3 69.4±1.2
Platelets, 109/l 412±29 393±27 405±19
Lymphocytes are strongly picotesla the core is sometimes found significant Ashrafinia grain. The bulk of segmented cells has a gentle, neutrophilic, not quite clear grain in smears. Kernel eosinophilic cells formed from loose chromatin substance and have an almost circular shape. Kernel eosinophils and neutrophils are formed on ringed type, so often found the annular core at Palo is davidnyc forms. Monocytes are very different from lymphocytes. The latter is equal to the value of two cells, have a great bobbygee core and wide protoplasmatic the border that is painted in blue or purple color with a delicate granulation. Blood platelets are large heaps.
Significant differences between the parameters of the control and test groups were not observed. Sex differences were not found.
Thus, the peripheral blood of rats experimental groups according to their quantitative and qualitative composition corresponded to specific physiological norm.
In table 11 presents data on the mass ratios of the organs of white rats of the experimental groups after 14 days after the start of injection. The study was conducted on 10 animals of each sex from each group.
The impact of the proposed funds for mass ratios organs of white rats (mg/100 g)
MK (M±m) The proposed tool, mg/kg
Control 2.2 11.0
Heart 4.2±0.3 .9± 0.3 4.3±0.4 4.0±0.3 4.6±0.3 4.2±0.3
Light 9.8±0.5 9.6±0.4 10.0±0.7 9.5±0.4 9.9±0.4 9.9±0.3
The thymus 1.13±0.03 1.10±0.03 1.14±0.02 1.11±0.03 1.12±0.04 1.14±0.03
Liver 53.0±5.0 52.0±5.0 54.0±3.0 58.0±5.0 57.0±5.0 53.0±5.0
Spleen 3.5±0.3 3.3±0.3 3.4±0.4 3.5±0.3 3.3±0.4 3.4±0.4
Kidney 8.0±0.4 7.8±0.5 8.2±0.5 8.1±0.4 8.0±0.5 8.0±0.3
The adrenal glands 0.32±0.03 0.32±0.03 0.33±0.03 0.32±0.03 0.31±0.03 0.30±0.02
The brain 9.6±0.4 9.7±0.4 9.8±0.6 8.8±0.4 9.5±0.5 9.7±0.4
The testes or ovaries 14.1±0.4 0.44±0.03 14.0±0.6 0.45±0.04 13.2±0.5 0.45±0.04
The table shows that the differences between the mass ratios of the organs of rats treated with the proposed tool, and control animals was not observed. Pathological changes not.
Thus, the study showed that in the acute experiment after intragastric administration proposed funds rats-males and females significant differences in toxicometric parameters have been identified.
In the study of subacute toxicity shown that daily for 14 days intragastric administration of the proposed tools in doses exceeding the maximum daily at 10 and 50 times, does not lead to the development of pathological changes of the General condition and behavior of animals, has no toxic effects on protein, carbohydrate, fat and electrolyte types of metabolism, morphological composition of peripheral blood does not cause dystrophic and destructive, focal sclerotic changes in parenchymatous cells and stroma of the internal organs and is not accompanied locally irritant effect.
As can be seen from the obtained results of the proposed anti-inflammatory drug, done the TES in the form of solid dosage forms for oral administration, containing the active meloxicam, moving - salt of stearic acid, a binder is maltodextrin, disintegrator - in particular the sodium salt croscarmellose and filler - dextrin, has high bioavailability and improved consumer properties, as well as expands the Arsenal of anti-inflammatory action.
1. Anti-inflammatory drug, is made in the form of solid dosage forms for oral administration containing active ingredient : meloxicam, moving, a binder and a filler, wherein the binder it contains maltodextrin as a filler - dextrin, as the moving - salt of stearic acid or stearic acid, and further comprises a disintegrator, in particular the sodium salt croscarmellose, with the following content, wt.%:
Meloxicam 4,0-25,0
Disintegrator - sodium salt croscarmellose 0,5-7,0
Binder is maltodextrin 5,0-20,0
or stearic acid 0.3 to 1.0
Filler - dextrin 100
2. The tool according to claim 1, characterized in that it as a salt of stearic acid may contain magnesium or calcium salts.
3. The tool according to claim 1, characterized in that it is made in the form of tablets, or microtablets, or pellets, or granules.
4. The tool according to claim 3, characterized in that the mass of the tablet is 0.1 g and 0.2 g
5. The tool according to claim 3, characterized in that the size of microtablets is from 1.5 to 3.0 mm
6. The tool according to claim 3, characterized in that the size of the pellets or granules is 0.25 to 2.0 mm
7. The tool according to claim 3, characterized in that it can be coated on the base polymer.
8. The tool according to claim 7, characterized in that the weight of the shell relative to the mass of the nucleus is, wt.%: for tablets 5-13, for microtablets 5-13, for pellets 15-25, granules 25-40.
9. The tool according to claim 3, characterized in that a number of microtablets, or pellets, or granules may be placed in a pharmaceutically acceptable capsule for oral administration.
10. The tool according to claim 9, characterized in that the capsule is filled with microtablets, or pellets, or granules in such a quantity that the concentration of active ingredient equivalent to therapeutic dose.
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EFFECT: strain for prophylaxis and/or treatment of undesired inflammation activity and cancer prophylaxis.
42 cl, 29 dwg, 1 tbl, 4 ex
Hydrophilic nateglinide-containing pharmaceutical preparation // 2283104
SUBSTANCE: invention proposes a hydrophilic pharmaceutical composition with hypoglycemic effect comprising nateglinide crystals of B-type as an active component. The composition has edge angle to water surface 111 degrees or less. This edge angle is created by addition at least one hydrophilic substance to the composition chosen from groups comprising of hydrophilic polymers, surfactants, sugars and sugar-alcohols. Invention provides easy method for preparing the composition, its high solubility and rather rapid release of nateglinide.
EFFECT: improved and valuable properties of pharmaceutical composition.
13 cl, 8 dwg, 4 tbl, 6 ex
Dry granulated azithromicine compositions // 2283092
FIELD: pharmaceutical composition in form of tablet, sachet or powder for suspension.
SUBSTANCE: claimed composition contains particles of azithromicine non-dehydrated form obtained by dry granulation method and optionally one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipient. Pharmaceutical composition preferably represents tablet containing approximately 40-85 mass % non-dehydrated azithromicine. More preferably pharmaceutical composition contains non-dehydrated azithromicine selected from F, G, J, M forms or mixtures thereof. Most preferably pharmaceutical composition contains azithromicine (A) in dose of 250 mgA, 500 mgA, 600 mgA, or 1000 mgA. Also disclosed is azithromicine particles obtained by dry granulation method that containing azithromicine form selected from F, G, J, M forms and mixtures of non-dehydrated forms, and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient.
EFFECT: new azithromicine compositions.
17 cl, 7 tbl, 7 ex
Water-soluble powders and tablets // 2283091
FIELD: pharmaceutical and food industries.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to preparing water-soluble or water-dispersible carbohydrate-based powders and tablets. Carbohydrate matrix is composed of at least 90% carbohydrate, e.g. starch or sugar. Closed-porosity powder or tablet is treated with gas so that gas contained in pores enhances dissolution or dispersing when in contact with water. Gas can be selected from nitrogen, carbon dioxide, air, oxygen, helium, hydrogen, argon, neon, methane, ethane, krypton, chlorine, chlorofluorocarbon, and mixture thereof. Gas is forced preferably under pressure at temperature above Tg of carbohydrate. Powder or tablet can further contain protein, hydrocolloid, or fat and forms no foam on dissolution or dispersing.
EFFECT: improved consumer's property of powders and tablets.
Medicinal agent possessing antihypertensive effect and method for its preparing // 2282443
FIELD: medicine, pharmaceutical technology, pharmacy.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to producing solid combined medicinal formulations of preparations exhibiting an antihypertensive effect, increasing heart blow-out index and enhancing tolerance to physical load in patient with the congestive cardiac insufficiency. The proposed medicinal agent comprises the following components, wt.-%: perindopril erbumine, 0.6-7.0; microcrystalline cellulose, 12.0-35.0; magnesium stearate, 0.3-1.7; aerosil, 0.1-1.0; croscarmelose-sodium, 1.1-7.0, and lactose, the balance. Also, invention discloses a method for preparing the medicinal formulation. Invention reduces loss of perindopril in process for the formulation preparing, retaining the parent properties of perindopril erbumine and enhancing biological availability of agent.
EFFECT: enhanced and valuable properties of agent, improved preparing method.
Combined polyvitamin composition and method for its preparing // 2282442
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to polyvitamin composition comprising complex of vitamins A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C, E, nicotinamide and calcium pantothenate and, optionally, folic acid, biotin, chlorocalciferol, phytomenadione and sorbitol, lactose, lubricating agent, taste and/or odor corrector as special supplements, and, optionally, microcrystalline cellulose and/or aerosil, and to a method for its preparing. The composition shows the enhanced stability.
EFFECT: improved and valuable properties of composition.
Ophthalmic anti-histaminic drops // 2281086
FIELD: medicine, ophthalmology, chemical-pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the development of the ophthalmic composition possessing with anti-histaminic activity. Anti-histaminic ophthalmic drops comprise zinc sulfate, diphenhydramine hydrochloride, naphazoline hydrochloride, sodium citrate, citric acid, benzalkonium chloride, methylene blue, sodium chloride, hydroxypropylmethylcellulose-4000, sodium hydroxide and distilled water taken in the definite weight ratio. Drops can be used in allergic conjunctivitis, blepharitis, eyelid nettle rash and insect stings. Invention provides expanding spectrum of pharmacological effect of agent in such diseases.
EFFECT: improved and valuable medicinal properties of drops.
Method for producing tablet "vikair" possessing anti-ulcerous and anti-acid effect // 2280467
FIELD: medicine, gastroenterology, pharmaceutical industry and technology.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a method for producing tablets possessing anti-ulcerous and anti-acid effect. Tablets comprise bismuth basic nitrate, magnesium basic carbonate, sodium hydrocarbonate, buckthorn bark powder, sweet flag rhizomes powder and filling agents - potato starch and calcium stearate. Method involves roasting buckthorn bark and sweet flag rhizomes under the definite conditions followed by pouring with boiling water at stirring up to preparing the homogenous suspension, mixing the suspension with other components, carrying out the wet granulation, drying the mixture, dry granulation, powdering and tableting. Method provides producing tablets showing good solubility in digestive tract and broader spectrum of effect.
EFFECT: improved and valuable medicinal and pharmaceutical properties of tablets.
Medicinal agent possessing hypotensive effect and method for its preparing // 2280450
FIELD: pharmaceutical technology, pharmacy.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to producing solid combined medicinal formulations of preparations showing the hypotensive effect on both systolic and diastolic arterial blood pressure, increasing the cardiac blood ejection and enhancing the tolerance to physical loading. Proposed medicinal agent comprises the following components, wt.-%: perindopril erbumin, 0.6-6.6; indapamide, 0.1-2.1; microcrystalline cellulose, 16.0-35.0; magnesium stearate, 0.3-1.7; aerosil, 0.2-1.0; croscarmelose sodium, 1.1-7.5, and lactose, the balance. Also, invention discloses a method for preparing the medicinal formulation. Invention provides reducing mechanical losses of perindopril erbumin and indapamide in the process of the formulation preparing, retaining their properties in intact state and enhancing biological availability of active substances.
EFFECT: improved and enhanced medicinal and pharmaceutical properties of agent.
Agent "bi-koden" possessing anti-coughing and expectorative effect // 2280440
FIELD: chemical-pharmaceutical industry, pharmacy.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to an agent possessing anti-coughing and expectorative effects. Agent possessing anti-coughing and expectorative effects comprises codeine, sodium hydrocarbonate, terpin hydrate, potato starch, stearic acid, nutritive gelatin and medicinal talc in the following ratio of components, g per a tablet of mass 0.6 g: codeine, 0.008; sodium hydrocarbonate, 0.3; terpin hydrate, 0.2; potato starch, 0.0617; stearic acid, 0.0053; nutritive gelatin, 0.01, and medicinal talc, 0.015. Invention provides safety in prolonged intake of the agent that shows less expressed irritant effect on stomach mucosa.
EFFECT: improved and valuable medicinal and pharmaceutical properties of agent.
Method for preparing methyluracil-base solid medicinal formulation of preparation // 2280439
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to a method for preparing methyluracil-base preparation representing stimulating agent of leucopoiesis in form of a tablet. The proposed method is carried out by mixing an active substance that is taken in the therapeutically permitted amount with accessory additives followed by granulation and tableting. Lactose and starch taken in the ratio 2:1 are used as accessory additives. After mixing all components the prepared mass is wetted firstly with 5% solution of medium-molecular polyvinylpyrrolidone followed by rewetting with 10% solution of polyvinylpyrrolidone wherein the total amount of mean-molecular polyvinylpyrrolidone is 5-5.5% of the total weight. The wet mass is granulated and dried at temperature 45-55°C and vacuum value 0.7-0.9 kgf/cm2 up to the residual moisture 3.5-4.0%. Then 8-10% of granules of their total amount are powdered with aerosil and calcium stearate taken in equal parts in the amount 0.5-0.8% of the total amount of the preparation followed by addition of other amount of granulate and tableting the prepared mixture. Invention provides simplified technology and simultaneous creature of a simple and available formulation of the medicinal agent as a tablet, enhanced strength of tablet and simultaneous rapid breaking up tablet in water, enhanced stability of tablet at storage.
EFFECT: improved preparing method, improved and valuable medicinal and pharmaceutical properties of preparation.
Use of dextromethorphan and oxidase inhibitor for removing addiction to narcotics and antidepressants in patients // 2281771
FIELD: medicine, narcology, biochemistry, pharmacy.
SUBSTANCE: invention proposes using the combination of dextromethorphan and the second medicine (quinidine, yohimbin, haloperdol, adjmaline, lobeline, pipamperon, fluoxetine, labetalol, chlorpromazine, domperidone, nortryptiline, quinine, oxyprenolol, propranolol, timolol, methaprolol, diphenhydramine, papaverine, mexiletine or their salts or isomers) for removing addiction to opiates, opioids or synthetic narcotics with exception cocaine and barbiturates (help in refusal in their using) or in case of chronic using antidepressant and corresponding treatment methods. The proposed combination of drugs reduces pain and relieves the withdrawal syndrome on the background of reducing morphine dose (antidepressant) up to the complete removing their intake.
EFFECT: enhanced effectiveness and valuable medicinal properties of medicine combinations.
54 cl, 2 ex
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Sandra Ireland
Author of 'Beneath the Skin'
Press Cuttings/reviews
Creative writing classes
Category: book launch
The Unmaking of Ellie Rook
It’s been a busy week, with the Edinburgh launch of The Unmaking of Ellie Rook at the amazing Golden Hare Books, and a wee shindig at my local tapas bar Maxibells in Carnoustie (plus a friend’s wedding sandwiched in between).
All done and dusted, Ellie Rook is well and truly out there in the world! It’s always a tense time. As a new writer, it’s hard to see beyond that point where your first book lands in your hands, but now that I’m three novels in (actually more than that, but the fourth is in editorial and number 5 is in my head!) I have a chance to reflect on what life on the ink face is really like.
So, here are my top tips for new authors:
Launch venue. Make sure you choose somewhere you feel comfortable, and where you are among friends. It can be a bit of an ordeal! Writers are by nature shy creatures, happiest in their normal habitat. Scrubbing up to go out in public can be a chore when your default setting is slumped in front of a PC. Being in the spotlight- well, a hundred ‘what ifs’ will be floating through your head. Comfort is your watchword, whether that means old shoes or being in a place you’re familiar with
Ring the changes. Don’t be afraid to do something a bit different, although the standard ‘chaired’ chat is probably best for debut authors. Make sure you have someone you know in the chair! However, it’s good to experiment. Introduce some music or pair up with a poet or singer. Choose a theme, or pick a venue which relates to your book.
The Yonderlees
The local launch of my second novel Bone Deep, included traditional music and spoken word, which lent a story arc to the evening. This time, I was keen to play up the woodland, watery theme of the new book, so at Maxibells, we had tables dripping with greenery and my favourite local duo The Yonderlees put their own unique musical slant on the themes of the story.
I was able to use their PA too, which was very handy!
Staunch supporters at Maxibells!
Good friends are a must!
3. Take time to think about your guest list. A small, intimate gathering where guests are invited to drop in via social media, or a more formal ‘by invitation’ format? This can be tricky, unless you have a lot of contacts, perhaps from several different areas of your life.
Non-booky people can find a literary event boring and/or intimidating (and so can family members!) so bear that in mind when choosing a venue. Like a wedding, there will be the ‘ought to invite’ list and the ‘must have’ list. But it’s your day. Don’t let such things overshadow this great achievement.
4. Readings from the book. They must be short enough to whet the appetite, but long enough to break up the time. You have an hour to fill! This is where a musician or poet can help you out. Joint book launches are always an option if you’re a bit nervous.
Rebecca Sharp at the Hospitalfield launch of Bone Deep, 2018
5. Book sales. If you are traditionally published, most events will be covered by your local bookseller, but you can order your own author discounted copies or provide your own books if self-published. I usually offer the gig to my local indie bookshop (The Bookhouse, Monifieth) because, let’s face it- we need them! If you’re selling your own books, have a mate on hand to help. You’ll have enough to think about!
6. Food and drink. Most bookshops, like Golden Hare, thoughtfully provide wine. (Do not quaff a whole glass before your talk!!) If you’re organising your own launch- how about some home-baking or tea in vintage cups? Ellie Rook was launched in Carnoustie with gin cocktails and a curry buffet!
7. Publicity A good way to herald the launch of your new book is by organising, or having a professional organise, a blog tour. We are so luck in the writing community that we have so many reviewers and book bloggers willing to support our work. My tours have been arranged by Love Books Group and it’s wonderful to watch it all come together. Sometimes bloggers who might normally post about, say, beauty products or food, will come on board and introduce your book to a much wider audience. Social media is a creature which can offer enormous benefits in the right hands.
8.Reviews. After the launch everything will go dark. Nothing to do with the alcohol, but you’ll need to stick on your business hat. Everyone moves on very quickly and your book is just one of many struggling to the light. Try not to stalk Amazon and Goodreads as you wait for reviews. And you WILL get bad reviews. Steel yourself. It does not mean you have a bad book, but it just cannot appeal to everyone. Don’t allow yourself to dwell on the negative, it’s the enemy of creativity. As a wise person once said to me, ‘The people who write 1 * reviews are not the people you’d ever be friends with anyway.’ So true. Stick with your pals and supporters- they are legion. Just make sure you invite them to your next launch!
An Indian Adventure
There are times when you just have to pinch yourself. Hurtling through the Kolkata traffic in the back of a crazy yellow taxi, in the company of top literary agent Jenny Brown, acclaimed crime writer Lin Anderson, and Esha Chatterjee, my Indian publisher, has to be one of those times!
We were on our way to the Kolkata Book Fair (the world’s largest) for the launch of the Indian edition of Bone Deep at the British Council Pavilion and a whirlwind of panel discussions. Such a far cry from Carnoustie, I think I can be forgiven for thinking I’d stepped into someone else’s reality!
It all began with an invitation to the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters, in Kerala. Never having visited India before, this was an incredible opportunity, and I couldn’t have wished for better travelling companions. Jenny and Lin have both visited India several times before, to promote Scotland’s biggest crime writing festival, Bloody Scotland, and to foster links between Scottish and Indian authors. None of us knew what to expect from MBIFL, now in its second year, but I think it’s fair to say we were overwhelmed by the warmth of our welcome, the attention to detail and the wonderful touches which have made the Mathrubhumi Festival such a huge hit with everyone who attended.
The Festival was entirely plastic-free. Even our delegate badges were cardboard, and each speaker was given an aluminium water bottle, and a jute bag. The programme was varied and far-reaching; such a mix of current topics, with creatives from five continents. We met so many interesting people- my TBR pile has tripled! But how valuable to be exposed to writing from outside one’s normal experience. Three cheers for the wonderful volunteers who plied us with the most delicious juices (cucumber juice is amazing!) and hot, sweet chai.
Our lovely helpers! MBIFL 2019
When the day’s business came to an end, we were treated to dinner beneath the stars. You can do that in Kerala!
After four days in our Mathrubhumi bubble, we had to say a sad farewell, and it was on to Kolkata to meet Esha Chatterjee from Bee Books. Esha also publishes the Bloody Scotland anthology, and the novels of Graeme Macrae Burnet (all fantastic reads). We visited Jadavpur University Press and met some very talented and enthusiastic publishing students.
Esha, Jenny, Lin and myself, with Sujata Sen at the Sienna Cafe, Kolkata
A walking tour around Kolkata is a must, especially in the company of Ritwick from Calcutta Walks. He is so knowledgeable, four hours spent exploring the old byways of the city went by in a flash. He also knows the very best places to buy masala chai and the tastiest samosas!
Back home in chilly Scotland, our Indian adventure certainly feels like a dream, but it must have happened- we have photos to prove it!
Also can’t believe I met up with these two on the other side of the world! Thank you Calum and Georgie for flying in from Cambodia xxx
The Janus Effect
Wishing you love, luck, health, happiness and the determination to reach your goals in 2019!
I’m definitely in two minds about January. I seem to be spending quite a lot of time with a nostalgic eye on what’s gone before, rather than looking forward to the twelve months ahead. I suppose that Roman god Janus had the right idea- my thoughts are wrapped up in beginnings and endings, gates, doorways and passages of time.
Personally, 2018 was a difficult year for me, with the death of my dear dad in March, and all it entails; not just the grief but the dismantling of a life. With both parents now gone, it’s been a time for me to reflect on my own place within the family. Whatever age you are, being an orphan is always going to be tough. My mother used to say that life was a ladder, and with each year, we climb another rung. With the death of her own mother, Mum declared that she herself had now moved up to the top of the ladder. A lonely place, perhaps, but surely a good opportunity to pause and admire the view across the years?
These inter-generational themes are explored in the novel I’ve just completed, Sight Unseen, which will hopefully hit the shelves in 2020. It has been a joy to write, as I remember my father’s little quirks and funny sayings, but also an emotional task. It’s a story close to my heart and my own experience.
Whatever your place on the ladder of life, age is no barrier to success and, professionally, 2018 was an amazing year for me, with the UK publication of Bone Deep, a mini-book tour with Sarah Maine, lots of exciting events and to round it all off, Iceland Noir and a week’s residency at Cove Park.
‘Mystery Tour’ Iceland Noir
Iceland is the most dramatic, beautiful and friendly country. Not as icy as I’d packed for, but just like Scotland in winter- dark and damp! I loved the compact nature of Reykjavik, the considerate drivers, the cosy cafes and the food (I didn’t try fermented shark. Next time!). Iceland Noir is a crime festival, with an intimate, inclusive vibe. Think Bloody Scotland with more fairy lights! Thoughtful, humorous panels and the perfect chance to mix with some top writers. I was permanently star-struck! Delighted to be on a panel with Louise Mangos, Sarah Ward and Mary Torjussen, moderated by none other than the British Ambassador, Michael Nevin. Other people have recorded the entire festival much better than I am attempting to do; the lovely Mary Picken, for instance. Read all about it here!
Cove Park was another first for me in 2018. I booked a self-funded winter residency in December, and succeeded in finishing novel 4, Sight Unseen. Cove Park is the most remarkable place, with dramatic scenery, weather extremes and a warm welcome! Another chance to meet some amazing fellow artists, but mainly I kept my head down and wrote. No distractions, a lovely cosy room- the perfect place to be creative.
This seems to have turned into a ‘looking back’ post, rather than a ‘looking forward’ one. However, we’re still in the Janus month, so I think I’ll get away with it. Next time, a sneaky peak at what’s in store this year, and a wee mention for The Unmaking of Ellie Rook, my suspenseful and timely novel of 2019!
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It’s November already and I’ve hardly had time to draw breath.
Now, the Cursed Virus of ’18 has finally struck and breathing is but a fond memory. Here I am, lounging around in my pjs eating toast and feeling sorry for myself – the perfect time to ponder the highlights of this summer!
Once Bone Deep was well and truly unleashed on the world in July, it was time to take a little jaunt in the company of the fabulous Sarah Maine.
Sarah’s novel The House Between Tides was chosen as August’s Scottish Book of the Month by Waterstones, so we managed a whistle-stop tour of some top branches: Argyle Street, Perth and St Andrews, met some lovely readers and booksellers, drank lots of tea and even grabbed a delicious St Andrews curry!
But no rest for the wicked writer. As everyone knows August is BOOK HEAVEN in Edinburgh, with not only the International Book Festival in Charlotte Square, but a raft to of other exciting booky fringe events.
First up was Blackwells Writers at the Fringe programme. This is a real treat for readers, and a great showcase for authors, with a series of panel events stretching throughout the month of August. The lovely Ann Landmann was on hand with the introductions, and to make sure our books were in pride of place.
The VERY Stockbridge basement which features in Beneath the Skin, round the corner from Golden Hare Books!
And then we joined the lovely staff at Golden Hare Books, for Myth, Mystery & Memory: Women Writing Scottish Fiction. Here, we discussed Bone Deep, Sarah’s current novel Women of the Dunes and the similarities between them. Both are ‘stories within a story’. As storytellers, we agreed that we like to delve into that deep dark vein of the oral tradition and emerge with something powerful and new!
It would have been rude not to accompany Elizabeth to the Authors’ Yurt!
And onto the EIBF! My writing buddies Elizabeth Frattaroli and Dawn Geddes were very busy bees this festival, with Elizabeth, as co-coordinator of the South Scotland branch of SCBWI, chairing a Freedom to Write event, and Dawn enjoying a ‘roving brief’ with my favourite Scots Magazine. As book correspondent, Dawn is always on the look out for the best in Scottish writing talent, and we attended some excellent events.
I have to go and blow my nose, but next time, I’ll be reminiscing about a very special event at Barry Mill, Noir at the Bar, Edinburgh and the fabulous Wee Crime Fest, Grantown-on-Spey!
The excitement is Bone Deep!
At last! Bone Deep is here. Many writers will tell you how tricky that second book is, and to some extent that’s true, although for me the writing was the easy bit. I adored creating Bone Deep; I love Lucie, and Mac, and I have a big soft spot for Arthur. I miss those guys! I’m hoping that my readers will love this story just as much as I do.
And THAT’S the tricky part- the nail-biting, gut-clenching wait for the REACTION!
My second book hit the shelves on Thursday, and I’d love to share with you some of my favourite words and images so far.
I’ve just poured myself a large gin and tonic, but before I take one more sip of mother’s ruin, I want to say a BIG thank you to my amazing agent Jenny Brown– the best in the biz- and to all the team at Polygon. You’ve done, and continue to do, a wonderful job- Neville, Alison (glad you liked it!), Julie (Master of Suspense), Jan, Kristian, Vikki, Jamie…I’ve probably forgotten someone, but thank you all!
Raising my glass also to all the bloggers, reviewers and journalists who have been in touch, and to our lovely booksellers and librarians, and to my awesome fellow writers. Now please pour yourself a wee tipple or a nice cuppa and grab a copy of BONE DEEP. Cheers!
Parker the Puppy couldn’t wait to sink his teeth into this juicy novel, and ‘Hank’ from John Smith’s Bookshop, University of Stirling, needed to cool off afterwards…
‘Bone Deep is a taut, contemporary thriller about love, betrayal, female sibling rivalry and bone-grinding, blood-curdling murder.’ – Sunday Post.
‘A siren-like read, the storyline simply swallowed me whole…I could not stop reading!’ – Lovereading UK
‘…atmospheric, with a delicious build up of tension, and beautifully observed throughout. An absorbing read.’ – Michael J. Malone, author of House Of Spines.
BONE DEEP has been sold in India (Bee Books), Germany (Penguin) and the US (Gallery, an imprint of Simon and Schuster) but who knew it had sneaked into Russia….?
BONE DEEP enjoying St Petersburg, courtesy of Elizabeth Frattaroli
Newcastle Noir
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of travelling south to my old stomping ground of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. As a teenager, I lived in nearby Morpeth, and my Dad worked for many years in the Post Office Garage in Pottery Lane. Oh, how I remember him cursing the rush hour traffic on his daily commute! The reason for my visit? The very special NEWCASTLE NOIR festival! I’d never been to it before, but a chance meeting with the lovely Dr Noir herself (Jacky Collins) secured me a place on the New Blood panel. The venue is literally two minutes from the train station (unless you ask directions from a non-booky person who sends you the wrong way…).
The very distinguished-sounding Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle- affectionately known as the Lit & Phil – is out-of-this world; the largest independent library outside London. It houses over 160,000 books, and yes, I’d love to move in for a couple of weeks!
But back to business- the first thing you notice about Newcastle Noir (apart from the grand surroundings) is the warmth and enthusiasm of Dr Noir and her helpers.
Dr Noir & the Noirstars
A big welcome awaited us, and a lovely Green Room packed with goodies. It was a real treat to be introduced to my fellow panellists; Vicky Newham , G.B.Williams and Robert Scragg ,and to hear all about their journey to publication. We were guided along the way by the amazing Vic Watson. Hats off to both Vic, Dr Noir ,and others, who go to such lengths to bring writers together and to encourage new talent.
This is one festival which you will not want to miss next year. I say this about every festival I attend- my diary is getting seriously packed – but we have such vibrant creative communities across the land, and such passionate individuals dedicated to bringing them together, and making those vital connections between writers and readers. Lots of love and support to you all!
Meeting friends old and new- Claire MacLeary and the New Blood panel, with Vic Watson and Dr Noir.
Footnote.
My trip to Newcastle was nostalgic in many ways; a full circle. My dear Dad, who passed away in March, would have celebrated his 94th birthday on May 5th, the day I attended Newcastle Noir with my brother, Jack. The warmth of the welcome at the Lit &Phil was such that we both agreed it was the best possible way of spending the day. Dad would have approved!
Bone Deep – an evening of music and spoken word
I can’t believe it’s been two months since Crime at the Castle (and two months since I last updated my blog…hangs head in shame) so let’s hit the ground running with a look at what’s been happening in my booky world!
My second novel Bone Deep will be published at the start of July, so in the run-up to the big day, please join me on Twitter (@22_ireland), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Sandralowireland/) and Goodreads. I’ve not been very active on Goodreads, so please follow me- I need all the friends I can get!
We decided to get the celebratory ball rolling in April with a concert in the atmospheric surroundings of Hospitalfield, Arbroath. My friends at Hypercoaster Music had the tricky task of bringing together nine virtual strangers, with only an ancient murder ballad in common…and they nailed it! The audience were enthusiastic in their praise, and appreciated how well the performers ‘gelled’, which demonstrates the power of music and art to unite us. It was stirring stuff, as each artist interpreted the ballad of The Cruel Sister* in their own unique way.
The highlight for me was reading from Bone Deep accompanied by the harp! I’d never attempted anything like this before, but I knew I was in safe hands with super-talented writer, poet and musician Rebecca Sharp. When you read the book, you’ll understand that a very special harp is pivotal to the story, so it was quite emotional for me, not only to hear the instrument playing in the background, but to experience each unique and haunting interpretation of the theme of the evening.
Author, actor and director Heather Osborne helped me to set the scene with our take on the history of The Cruel Sister ballad. Rebecca, and Emil Thompson treated us to a deliciously dark interpretation of the theme, which involved a Crow Box, a Singing Bowl and a little bit of magic! Spoken word artist Stephen Watt delivered a thought-provoking and poignant set, exploring the darkness of our own psyche, while folk duo Shamblestone wowed us all with a raw and powerful rendition of the Twa Sisters (video on their Facebook page!). Lisa Rigby and Stuart Clark finished the night off with a fantastic set, including a most haunting and memorable version of The Wind and Rain.
Huge thanks to Tash and Andy at Hypercoaster, to all who took part, and helped out on the night and beforehand. I really hope we can do it again some time!
Next week, I’ll tell you a little more about the story behind the story, and we’ll look at the history of the ballad itself.
*The Ballad of the Cruel Sister was the inspiration behind Bone Deep. I wanted to show how the past can impact on the present. Strangely, there’s a link between Hospitalfield and this book! In 1813, Sir Walter Scott visited the house, and was inspired to use it as the setting for his novel The Antiquary. Some 11 years previously, Scott had published a collection of Border Ballads, entitled The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders. As a teenager, I chanced upon this tome while rummaging through an old bookshop in the Borders. The Cruel Sister ballad, with its powerful themes of sibling rivalry, betrayal and murder really captured my imagination. Little did I know that some forty years later I would be standing where Scott once stood, talking about my own novel!
A Story Within A Story
It goes without saying that writers always have a swarm of story ideas buzzing around in their heads, and a notebook beside the bed, just in case one of the little blighters escapes! I often feel like a ghoulish beachcomber, picking through the bones of real-life situations in search of meat. A tiny piece of flotsam can lead me into a new novel, short story or poem.
So why, when anyone asks about my own story, do I want to scuttle away like a hermit crab?
Because it’s personal, and as any writer will tell you- we don’t do personal, unless it’s neatly wrapped in fiction and we can hide behind it. In the modern, media-savvy world, getting up close and personal with the author is all part of the publishing deal.
This, I have to admit, is something I struggle with. I lurked on Twitter for ages before I was brave enough to compose that first Tweet. I blanched at the thought of the ‘professional head shots’ required for publicity purposes, and giving interviews? Why would anyone come to an event to hear me speak?
Dawn Geddes
If all this sounds disturbingly familiar, never fear! There is now professional help available for us weak-at-the knees newbies. I have just completed Week One of a startlingly helpful course devised by Dawn Geddes, a freelance journalist, with a background in public relations and media work. Dawn, a fiction writer herself, knows only too well what it takes to make that leap from behind the keyboard to star in your own show.
In Week One of her four-week online course, I was faced with an Author Story Questionnaire. What? Authors have stories too? They do, and they’re not made up. At first it was difficult, but the more involved I became, the more I began to recall the interesting aspects of my life, the bits that I never think to talk about, because I hate talking about myself! It was a real voyage of discovery, and to return to my beachcombing analogy- soon I began to unearth buried treasure. Suddenly, this writer has a backstory!
Using Dawn’s tailor-made tools, I have now re-vamped my website. Take a look. Tell me what you think. I wanted it to reflect the noirish tone of my writing, and if readers are interested in ME, it stands to reason they’ll give my books a whirl.
So, a whopping five stars for Week One of the ‘Be your own publicist’ course. I will report back on Week Two, but in the meantime, check out Dawn’s course HERE
Last week, I took an exciting trip back to my roots!
Vic Watson and Jacky Collins, organisers of Newcastle Noir kindly invited me along to Noir @ the Bar, in the Town Wall, Newcastle. Newcastle Noir is a literary festival celebrating the best in contemporary crime writing, bringing together writers from the North East, across Britain, as well as from further afield. By all accounts, the 2017 festival was a huge success, and it’s already on my calendar for next year! Noir@the Bar (there are quite a few versions of this across the country) is a fun, informal evening of readings…in a pub. Writers’ paradise, pretty much!
When I last visited Newcastle, I was too young to drink, but unfortunately, on this occasion, the bar staff saw no need to I.D. me. We had a fabulous night in a great venue, and I really enjoyed listening to chilling extracts from some must-read novels and short stories.
I chose to read the opening pages from my novel Beneath the Skin, and I was very conscious that my central character, Walt, was coming home too. As a nod to my own upbringing, Walt grew up in rural Northumberland, but I could just imagine him meeting his mates for a few pints in a place like the Town Wall, having a laugh and a bit of banter. Beneath the Skin is about what happens when the laughter stops. When you come home but your best mate doesn’t. It’s about how trauma changes people.
Beneath the Skin (Polygon)
My trip ‘down south’ was much too brief, but I couldn’t pass up the chance to check out a few Gothic locations for my next project….!
Granite Noir
According to my friend and fellow writer Claire Macleary, granite has a peculiar quality which makes it sparkle, whilst underneath lurks the toughest of dark materials (gratuitous literary reference).
Similarly, Granite Noir, launching last weekend with a glittering array of writing talent, did not shy away from asking the troubling questions exposed by our dark love affair with crime fiction. Moral dilemmas, blurred lines, social issues and the existence of evil were just some of the gripping panel discussions on offer at Scotland’s newest literary festival.
In addition to our favourite native authors, such as Chris Brookmyre, Denise Mina, and Stuart Macbride, to name but a few, we enjoyed an invasion of ‘hot Scandi talent’, courtesy of Orenda Books. The names may still be a little unfamiliar to us (and hard to pronounce!) but our appetite for their compelling thrillers is voracious and my ‘to be read’ pile is growing so fast I may have to move into the shed! From Finland we had Antti Tuomainan and Kati Hiekkapelto; from Denmark, Thomas Rydahl; Norway’s Thomas Enger, and Gunnar Staalesen (one of the fathers of Nordic Noir). Last but not least, Sweden’s ‘Queen of Crime’, Kristina Ohlsson.
Granite Noir also saw the launch of Cross Purpose, a gritty Aberdeen-based crime debut by my fellow ‘Mlitter’ Claire Macleary. Claire completed the Dundee Creative Writing programme a couple of years before me, but the literary scene in Dundee is very close-knit and supportive, so we’ve always kept up to date with our various successes and rejections. I was delighted to hear she’d secured a two-book deal with Saraband Books and most of our recent conversations have been about publication – the stresses and pitfalls as well as the pleasures!
The entire weekend was topped off with a highly entertaining Noir at the Bar in the Belmont Filmhouse, ably hosted by Russel D. Mclean.
Here are a few images from the weekend.
A little light refreshment…
and the all important merch-haul
Claire with Clio Gray and Russel D. Mclean
The signature!
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Tonight sees the final session in Finding Inspiration Through Folklore, a series of community workshops supported by Creative Scotland. We will be holding a sixth and final evening with story-sharing, music and song next month. More details to follow! Things have been so busy recently, with the upcoming launch of my third novel The Unmaking […]
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by Margery Boyden, Scudder Association Foundation Historian | Apr 20, 2019 | History 0, History Journal Lead, Journal 1.1, Vol 1 no 1 Lead
“Straight from the Horse’s Mouth:
Time Again to Separate Scudder Facts from Fiction,”
by ©Margery Boyden, Scudder Association Foundation Historian,
Thirty years ago, in an earnest effort to call attention to significant errors to be found in numerous Scudder genealogies circulating the globe, David B. Scudder, the Scudder Association’s editor of Scudder Searches, warned:
“There are several old Scudder family history errors, some originating more than one hundred years ago, that still continue to raise their heads. Although all or most have been corrected in various issues of the Scudder Association Bulletin (published 1936–81), they seem to have a life of their own and just don’t go away. This note is intended to call attention to them and thus to lay them to rest, once and for all.“[1]
If only D. B. Scudder’s heroic efforts from 1989–1996 had put these errors to rest once and for all! Or, if the prior efforts he referred to from 1936 to 1981 had gotten rid of other fiction, it would have saved many of us years of struggle to reconcile conflicting data that still remains online and in print. One source of serious genealogical errors about the Scudder genealogy, (and for other families), is Bunker’s Long Island Genealogies, printed in 1895.[2] Offering no citations from any primary source records, Bunker was one of the earliest inaccurate sources to wrongly suggest that Thomas1 Scudder, (T), Puritan immigrant to America came from Groton, Suffolk, England. This conflicted with other sources found that stated Thomas1 was from Horton Kirby, Kent. More reliable sources originated with the Scudder Association research in the 1980–1990s. The Association sought and found the necessary primary source proofs that were then printed in Scudder Searches. Correction #1: Scudder immigrants to America were not from Groton, Suffolk, England.
Ed Soper, Scudder Association genealogist quoted Dr. Herbert Seversmith, a well known genealogist who studied extensively families of Long Island and Connecticut, who said: “[T]he Scudder genealogy is one of the best published genealogies of a pioneer American family.” Soper continued: “Why is this true? It is because it is a living genealogy. Its lines of descent have never been closed since the Rev. Eli F. Cooley of Trenton and his son, Professor William Cooley, devoted patient research to tracing the records of many of the families of Trenton and Ewing, New Jersey. In 1882 their notes came into the hands of Eli’s granddaughter who published their findings, including the genealogy of the Scudders, in a book entitled: Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing.”[3]
This first issue of the Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal again exposes error #1, about the ancestral home of the 3 Scudder immigrant ancestors. They were all from Kent County, England, from the family of Horton Kirby, Kent. We also now republish from the Summer 1996 Scudder Searches, this brief summary of how the Scudder Association Genealogical Papers Collection was gathered to the present day and by whom.[4]
Scudder Association Timeline for Acquiring Its Genealogy Data Collection
1912. In 1912, the Scudder Association was founded and is among the oldest of family organizations in America. Because the Association had the vision early to gather from many Scudder descendants, it is the “horse’s mouth” for a majority of what is known about Scudder genealogy. The Association preserved much that could have been lost.
1915. The Scudder Association gained added “access to plentiful files of Scudder genealogical materials…[that] remained in the hands of individual Scudder families.”
1915. Mary Theresa Scudder began a central Association genealogical file by “charting the genealogical history of the Scudders in Rev. Cooley’s Genealogy of the Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing, New Jersey.” It is apparently she who adopted the system of T and J numbers the Association used for many past years to identify individual descendants of the 2 male founders of the US Scudder family. In his book, Rev. Cooley, who married into the Scudder family, covers main Scudder families of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania and some others. Cooley’s material came largely from correspondence with many Scudder families.
1920s. The Association received a photocopy of the will of the Rev. Henry Scudder of Collingbourne Ducis that proved beyond doubt that John and Elizabeth Scudder of Barnstable were related, but not children of Thomas (T) of Salem. It was apparently Helen Scudder Bouchier, living in England, niece of Ida S. Scudder, who first provided the copy of Rev. Henry1 Scudder’s will to the Association. Note: Thomas (T) did have children of same names, John and Elizabeth, but John (J) and Elizabeth (E) named in the will of Rev. Henry were Thomas (T’s) niece and nephew. Be aware, that some printed sources mix data between these same named cousins. Rev. Henry1 Scudder’s will refers to Thomas1 (T) as “brother” and the others as “cousins” which in their day also meant relatives. Rev. Henry’s will corrects the mistake in Bunker that again without any source citations asserted Rev. Henry was the “father” of Thomas. This will provided 100 years ago proved that Rev. Henry Scudder was a brother, not father to Thomas (T), and that Thomas was not father of John (J) and Elizabeth (E) and that the family was from Kent County, England. Yet the error about the family’s location in England and inaccurate mixing of data still persists in current online trees.
1936. Dorothy Jealous Scudder edited the 1st issue of the Scudder Association Bulletin, which includes a substantial genealogical article. Six more issues followed but WWII interrupted publication.
1952. It was likely Mary Theresa Scudder who resumed publication of the Bulletin.
By 1964, 8 more issues were published. According to Mary Theresa Scudder, through cooperative efforts between the historian and the individual Scudder families, a highlight was discovery of the connection of the Indiana and Illinois Scudders and many others much farther west to the line of John T-1-2-2 of Essex Co., NJ.
About 1966. Ed Soper became historian and was editor of the Bulletin until 1980. “Able and willing to spend a large amount of time on the subject, he—working both on his own and by mail with individual family members—achieved a vast increase in the number of individual Scudder names included in the Association files.” It was he who also collected the genealogy for Elizabeth (Scudder) Lathrop (E), sister of John (J).
1980s. The Association, through efforts of Cy Sherman, Nita Baugh, Susan Swanson and others, hired a professional genealogist in England to expand knowledge of our English ancestry. These findings motivated a new genealogical publication series beginning in 1989. The Association also continued to publish its Newsletter.
1989–1998. Scudder Searches began with David B. Scudder as editor. His assistant was Janet Bitler, with support by the Association’s genealogy committee members. During this time, the Association collaborated with Simon Skudder of England who undertook a survey of the Scudder wills in Kent County, England. Scudder Searches published transcripts and/or abstracts of these wills, including the 1594 will of Henry Scudder, yeoman of Horton Kirby, which proved he was the father of Thomas1 (T), and Rev. Henry1 Scudder and John1, who was later proved to be father of immigrants John (J) and Elizabeth (E). NOTE: To describe Henry Scudder, yeoman of Horton Kirby, our new publications will refer to him as HenryA Scudder, the common ancestor of the immigrants. This will assist in clearing up some confusion in print about the relationships among the immigrants. Caution: “A” is a genealogical generational designation and not a middle initial! HenryA’s sons Rev. Henry1, Thomas1 and John1 will now share the same generational number “1” to show their proper relationships to each other. Therefore, their children will be generation “2”. There has been confusion about the relationships between Thomas1 (T), John2 (J) and Elizabeth2 (E) because of their immigrant ancestor status designating them as “generation 1” to each of their descendant lines; but, they were not the same generation in the family structure. The widowed mother of John1 (J) and Elizabeth1 (E) was technically the first generation immigrant ancestor for their lines because she came about 1640 with Elizabeth (E), of whom more in a later issue. Besides warnings about old errors, the 1990s Scudder Searches reported findings from its new wave of English research. After D. B. Scudder died in 1997, Janet Bitler and Simon Skudder published 3 more issues.
1993. It was not until 1993 in vol. V, no. 1 of Scudder Searches that the Scudder Association fully resolved the relationships between the three immigrant ancestors, John (J), Elizabeth (E) and their uncle Thomas (T). Using the old IGI, Robert C. Scudder of Gladstone, Missouri found baptismal records extracted from the Strood, Kent, England Parish Register for John (J) and Elizabeth (E). He photocopied the microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and shared with the Association. Other records corroborated that (J) and (E) were baptized at Strood. These were published in Winter of 1993.[5] In Summer of 1992, Scudder Searches published the will of their grandfather, HenryA Scudder, yeoman of Horton Kirby, Kent.[6] It was by comparing properties mentioned in the wills of Rev. Henry1 Scudder and his father HenryA that finally proved the common Scudder ancestor in England. It was the Strood Parish register that revealed where HenryA’s son John1 had gone. This was the final piece necessary to solidify the roots of American Scudders and to dispel myths about origins.
1997. Data reported in Scudder Searches apparently provided a basis for Jane Fletcher Fiske’s professional article, “A New England Immigrant Kinship Network,” published in The American Genealogist in 1997.[7] Fiske succinctly portrays and adds sources for the family of HenryA Scudder, yeoman of Horton Kirby and his children Rev. Henry1, Thomas1 (T) and John1 and John1’s children John (J) and Elizabeth (E). Fiske corrects the same misinformation the Scudder Association repeatedly had corrected earlier. She comments near the outset of her article, “The Association had clearly been on the right track, but the material it published lacks organization.” Today’s digital tools, new resources and our website will enable us to better organize and publish our materials than was possible for the Association’s past genealogists. There is still obvious need to repeat corrections for long time errors in some Scudder genealogies even 20 years after Fiske also corrected many of them in her The American Genealogist (TAG) article. Errors continue to circulate and multiply online as shown by our 2019 survey of 200 “trees” on ancestry.com, 198 of which show the same old errors!
Date uncertain. Chris Scudder became the Association’s historian and genealogist. He spent countless hours to organize the family groups into a genealogical computer program that is hosted on one of our sponsors website.
2018. Official name change: Scudder Association Foundation.
2019.The Scudder Association Foundation now announces its new online publication, Scudder Family Historical & Biographical Journal. The Journal will publish articles from the Scudder Association’s past publications including updated important corrections to Scudder family history. It will also offer historical and biographical articles for persons past and present. During this bicentennial year of the first Scudder missionaries to Ceylon and India, the 2019 articles will highlight a number of these early missionaries. In addition we will address the needed corrections about the families of the first Scudder immigrants to America so that our beginnings and ongoing narrative of the Scudder family will be correct, thus promoting greater historical accuracy in our own publications. By sharing original and primary sources, we hope to counteract prevalent misinformation online and in print. As time permits, we will add data from our own vast files and other vetted, historical, professional and original sources. We acknowledge that the Association in the past has made unintentional errors in its publications and database due to challenges of working with such a large amount of data and, in the beginning, having insufficient ancestral data in England. Some early American local histories and genealogies, not produced by the Association, were the sources of some published errors about our English Scudder “roots” which the Association trustingly adopted at first like everyone else. Although the Association has repeatedly published corrections to these errors “with a life of their own,” the recent survey of online family trees shows some of these mistakes seem now even more firmly entrenched in online trees of the unaware. Although without foundation in fact, some errors have also been repackaged in compiled online databases or indexes. These continue to mislead those who think a database is a reliable “source” rather than to be considered a “finding aid.” Some published local histories and family histories are based on old errors now disproven by primary sources. Accuracy in history depends on portraying persons in the right place at the right time frame and within their correct family units and social environments.
Now, with the reach of the Internet, D. B. Scudder’s words are even more urgent today. Fortunately, powerful search engines and new primary source record collections that can be helpful are available as never before. We promote the late D. B. Scudder’s goal for accuracy. Perhaps some of our readers will find new important records to share as others have. The review of the vast number of families currently in our database and records in our papers collection will take time, so we plead for patience. Please check back regularly as we work to improve and preserve our legacy.
See article following about generation #1, the common ancestor, HenryA Scudder, yeoman of Horton Kirby, Kent, England, w. d. 29 Sep 1594, w. p. 5 Nov 1595.
CORRECTION #1 summary: None of the Scudder immigrants to America were from Groton, Suffolk, England. Our survey showed no Scudder records in Suffolk County during the 1500s while there were many Scudder wills found for Kent County during the same 100 years. The will of Henry Skudder, yeoman of Horton Kirby, Kent, w.d. 29 Sep 1594, w.p. 5 Nov 1595, provides the only provable facts about the members of Henry’s nuclear family. His wife’s surname is not given and none of the daughters were referred to by married names. Daughter Elizabeth was at least age 20 and all other children appear to be minors. The Association exposed this mistake about Groton, Suffolk, England as early as the 1960s, but…now, 60 years later, this error is still found in many online trees at Ancestry and MyHeritage. Future articles will repeat other important corrections from Scudder Searches.
As we build on the foundation laid by many visionary family members of the past, who gathered an immense amount of records, we dedicate our efforts to them and to all who have assisted. For his many years of service and countless hours spent organizing our genealogical database, we thank Christopher Scudder, previous historian and genealogist.
[1] David B. Scudder, “Family History Note,” Scudder Searches, Scudder Association, volume 1, no. 2, (Summer 1989): 2. (italics added)
[2] Mary Powell Bunker, comp., Long Island Genealogies, (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell’s sons, 1895), 288.
[3] Edwin L. Soper, Bulletin XXII, Scudder Association, (August 1966): 3.
Ed Soper’s quote refers to the book by Eli F. Cooley and William S. Cooley, comp., Genealogy of Early Settlers in Trenton and Ewing, “Old Hunterdon County,” New Jersey, (Trenton, N. J.: The W. S. Sharp Printing Co., 1883). Miss Hannah L. Cooley, niece of William S. and granddaughter of Eli F. Cooley prepared the manuscript notes for printing. Although many families were included in his book, Eli Field Cooley had special interest in the Scudders. He married Hannah6 Scudder (William5, Jacob4, Benjamin3, Thomas2, Thomas1). The other compiler, William Scudder Cooley was their son.
[4] “Past Scudder Association Historians,” Scudder Searches, volume 6, no. 2, (Summer 1996): 5.
[5] “John and Elizabeth Scudder of Strood, Kent, and Barnstable, Massachusetts,” Scudder Searches, volume V, no. 1, (Winter 1993): 3–4.;
“John and Elizabeth Scudder, Once Again,” Scudder Searches, volume V, no. (Summer 1993): 3–6.
Future articles to be published in The Scudder Family Gistorical & Biographical Journal on scudder.org will provide more data for all three immigrants, but this present article suffices to advertise the need for repeating corrections of some fundamental long time errors.
[6] Simon Skudder, “Henry Skudder, Yeoman of Horton Kirby, Kent,” and “Wills, Henry Skudder of Horton Kirby, Kent,” Scudder Searches, volume IV, no. 3, (Summer 1992): 3–5, 8–9.
[7] Jane Fletcher Fiske, “A New England Immigrant Kinship Network,” The American Genealogist, volume 72, (July/October 1997): 285–300.
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Searching for Albion
A four-month cycling odyssey across the British isles
1. London to Berwick
1. Eastern England
1: London to Canvey
2: Canvey to Essex Marina
3: Essex Marina to Holbrook
4: Holbrook to Blaxhall
5: Blaxhall to Wymondham
6: Wymondham to Hunstanton
7: Hunstanton rest day
2. Midlands
8: Hunstanton to Thurlby
9: Thurlby to Leicester
10: Leicester to Coventry
11: Coventry to Wolverhampton
12: Birmingham
13: Wolverhampton to Nottingham
14: Nottingham to Matlock
3. Yorkshire
15: Matlock to Edale
16: Edale to Sheffield
17: Sheffield to Wakefield
18: Wakefield to Leeds
19: Leeds to Humberhead
20: Humberhead to Barton
21: Barton to Filey
4. North East England
22: Filey to Middlesbrough
23: Middlesbrough to Durham
24: Durham to Whitley Bay
25: Tyne & Wear
26: Whitley Bay to Bamburgh Castle
27: Bamburgh Castle to Berwick
3. Ben Nevis to Manchester
8. Nevis and Lochaber
53: Ben Nevis
54-55: Fort William
56-57: Highlands by hire car
58: Pitlochry to Ardnamurchan
9. Inner Islands and Lowlands
59: Ardnamurchan to Mull
60: Mull to Iona
61: Iona to Inveraray
62: Inveraray to Glasgow
63-65: Glasgow
66: Glasgow to Arran
67: Arran to Islay
68: Islay to Dalmellington
69: Dalmellington to Gretna
10. North West England
70: Gretna to Lake Thirlmere
71: Lake Thirlmere to Morecambe
72-73: Isle of Man
74: Heysham to Preston
75: Preston to Manchester
4. Manchester to Cardiff
11. Mills, Docks and Dales
76-78: Manchester
79: Manchester to Malham
80-82: Mills & Dales
83: Luddenden to Longridge
84: Longridge to Liverpool
85-86: Liverpool
87: Liverpool to Chirk
12. North Wales
88: Chirk to Betws-y-Coed
89: Betws-y-Coed to Bangor
90: Bangor to Dolgellau
91: Dolgellau to Machynlleth
92: Machynlleth to Aberystwyth
93: Aberystwyth to Carreg Coetan
13. South Wales
94: Carreg Coetan to Tenby
95: Tenby to Swansea
96: Swansea to Aberdare
97: Aberdare to Cardiff
98: Cardiff
6. Plymouth to home
16. South Coast and Islands
111: Plymouth to Christow
112: Christow to Lyme Regis
113: Lyme Regis to Weymouth
114: Weymouth to Jersey
115: Jersey to Sark
116: Sark to Bournemouth
17. South Easterly
117: Bournemouth to Wight
118: Wight to Southampton
119: Southampton to Horsham
120: Horsham to Brighton
18. Kent
121: Brighton to Dungeness
122: Dungeness to Margate
123. Margate to Sheppey
124. Sheppey to home
5. Scottish Lowlands
6. Highlands to Northern Isles
7. Western Highlands and Islands
28: Berwick to Edinburgh
29-33: Edinburgh
34: Edinburgh to Alva
35: Alva to Dundee
36: Dundee to Stonehaven
37: Stonehaven to Ballater
38: Ballater to Grantown
39: Grantown to Inverness
40: Inverness to Dornoch
41: Dornoch to Auckengill
42: Auckengill to Orkney
43: Orkney to Shetland
44: Shetland
45: Carness Bay to Thurso
46: Thurso to Durness
47: Durness to Lochinver
48: Lochinver to Lewis
49: Lewis to Berneray
50: Berneray to Skye
51: Skye to Mallaig
52: Mallaig to Glen Nevis
14. Mysterious South West
15. Along Cornwall and Devon
99: Cardiff to Bristol
100: Bristol
101: Bristol to Avebury
102: Avebury to Glastonbury
103: Glastonbury to Exmoor
104: Exmoor to Weare Giffard
105: Weare Giffard to Trebetherick
106: Trebetherick to St. Ives
107: St Ives to Penzance
108: Scilly & Penzance
109: Penzance to Falmouth
110: Falmouth to Plymouth
Day 71: Lake Thirlmere to Morecambe
August 12, 2014 January 2, 2015 / JD Taylor
‘Nothing is assured’ – Sonya, Morecambe.
Mid-morning, and the rain’s falling hard on my tent. Its light and rhythmic percussion wraps into my dozes like a thousand tiny mallets pattering against a vale of cotton wool. Droplets condense and form on the inside, and drip drop drip down onto my sleeping bag. In the course of the night, the lower half of the tent has flooded and most of my stuff is soaked through. My feet are freezing, but most of me’s unscathed. For around an hour I sit inside that tent, listening to the rain, wondering when it will take a pause.
At last, a break in the showers. I dash out into the nearby forest to find a discreet spot for my ablutions, then return to pack up. The rain’s still paused – great! I combine desperation with opportunity and attack my bike’s rear gears with a screwdriver. Eventually some combination of twists and fiddles has the vehicle moving as it should again. I celebrate with a few bowls of granola and just the most wonderful view of Lake Thirlmere. Mists hover above in thick tufts, their reflections on the water’s surface giving the impression of the imminent collapse of the heavens.
There’s a thick queue of cars snaking down below me and my encampment at this disused lumber yard. How little I envy them. Here there is the chill airs, soaked shoes, an unsteady bike and the promise of more rain. But there’s also the open road, the songs of the wind in one’s ears, the pleasure of discovering by your own determination the most extraordinary landscapes unknown to the imagination. Seeing and feeling it all for good or ill, or getting lost then discovering a new way, on your own terms. Feels so good!
The traffic this morning is just awful, a treacle trail that trickles up into the village of Grasmere. Any kind of pastoral joy that might be found in the place William Wordsworth called ‘the loveliest spot that man hath ever found’ quickly washes away in the fumes and fug. Coaches and cars cram into the road and push me off. Could someone in Cumbria council consider setting up a park and ride service from Carlisle? It’s just miserable cycling through here, and it appears I’m the only two-wheeled fool attempting it.
There’s not much to Grasmere, and it appears like many other small rural villages across the English countryside. Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage attracts most visitors. Today there’s a coach party from India being led by a middle-aged Russian woman, herding them along with a red umbrella raised aloft. ‘It’s not worth paying to get inside, but why not go into the gift shop?’
I take a photo for one couple, but it feels pretty dubious about it all. It’s another place to tick off. Put your hand up who regularly reads poetry? Take a photo and get back in the car, switch the radio back on, tap a code into your satnav and switch off your thoughts. You’re on holiday, so why would you want to think?
It’s not that though. It has me wondering why I can’t tell these people: but isn’t Wordsworth shite, or I think Shakespeare’s boring? At best, uttering these words will have people thinking that one is playing up one’s irreverence, being cheekily antagonising. But one can say Beckett, what bollocks or Joyce just goes and on and still be admitted into polite conversation. Some figures have become absorbed into an establishment of good taste, and that is bothersome. Karl Popper said that the basis of scientific reasoning is determining what is falsifiable. The most excessively dull and silly touristing revolves around these holy goats. So who’ll stick their head above the parapet and say….?
We dribble out of Grasmere and land into Rydal, another small village where marquees and cut hedges are the preparations for a dog show. There’s not much to report, just a similar kind of rural village as one might find in Surrey or Sussex. But Ambleside, my word, the village is bursting with tourists and their traffic, like a Saturday afternoon in some major town centre. I weave between two filled lanes of traffic and enter a settlement full of hiking shops and tea rooms. I wade through walkers with spiky poles and absurd get-up, old dears with zimmerframes meditating ponderously from benches at the morning scene, and visitors from every continent of the world entering and then leaving the visitor information centre with a look that speaks both confusion and disappointment. I give directions to one Chinese girl who has just come from the tacky tourist bus that haunts these hills, then decide to make an escape.
Let me come clean, and utter something more offensive than even Wordsworth’s shite. I hate the Lake District. If this is it, then it has been immensely overcrowded, touristy, and just disappointing. I’d been given some warning beforehand by a couple of others along the road. On the road to Cockermouth I passed two white cycles, memorials of road deaths, Carlisle FC scarves fluttering against their handlebars. I hadn’t expected this, a kind of prostituted heritage in country lanes swollen with cars.
Perhaps the rain is aggravating a low mood?
I exit Ambleside along a market lane (to be fair, take away the excessive shops and numbers and there’s probably a nice 18th century market village here), and back out into the countryside. There are fleeting glimpses of delightful and idyllic scenery, and some of the views of the distant peaks are a little stirring. The pleasure of the Lakes is one for walkers and explorers, not for road-users. The villages here aren’t sufficient to merit following major roads into them, and I’d point any curious cyclist to devise their own route among the quiet country roads that do crisscross these parts. But that view from Thirlmere was worth it…
Windermere is similarly congested, another village given over to Mammon, his massive landrover, and iPad-waving brats. A tourist bus takes a turn for Bowness, but I avoid it, sick of the traffic, and of having to jump off the road to let a queue of coaches and cars get past me. It’s frustrating and dangerous cycling, and I’m glad to finally escape into Kendal, a small market town situated in a valley.
Kendal is totally given over to shopping. Every available space is devoted to chain stores and commerce, with a small market in its centre giving the lie of crafts and trade to an otherwise over-sprawling shopping district within 18th century market town confines. But there’s no garish malls or retail parks, and there’s charm about the place. With some responsible development, it could be re-cast into somewhere more culturally and socially interesting, say like Alnwick. But that would be out of character for a market town for a wide surrounding area that’s no doubt seen countless characters, hustle and hurly-burly over the centuries. Enjoying my stroll around the place, I find a small café down an alleyway called Emma’s Yard 46, and get down to a little writing.
‘Oh it’s mad out there. It was a battle just to get from the town hall. Holiday-makers!’ The café mainly attracts locals, and their verdicts are often harsh but fair. ‘He’s in a death metal band. Death as in you’ve got to be deaf to listen to it.’ I lunch well here and enjoy my time, and only leave when the café has to close up around 4pm.
This ride back into England has been testing and difficult. What exactly is this place, after the wonders and majesty of Scotland? Supermarkets that sell the same things wherever in the country you are. Houses that could be anywhere: semi-detached white or grey pebble-dash, mock tudor gabling, bay windows, sky TV, international car on the driveway, a locked gateway, over-manicured roses blooming in carefully-allocated holes in the paving. A certain degree of reserved casual friendliness – mate, love, dear. There’s the St George’s flags still fluttering in the suburbs, besides the German discount supermarkets and the Chinese takeaways. To quote Harry the Duck, a skinhead interviewed by Dick Hebdige back in the late Seventies,
‘This is England! And they don’t live here.’
Who does live here, and why, and who shouldn’t, each seem to wrack the unfortunate parochialism and insularity of these parts so far. Maybe it’s just my mood, but after Scotland, I’m finding aspects of Englishness as it is popularly expressed either awkward or awful.
I follow a nice rural path out of Kendal and through the country hamlets of Natland, Sedgwick and beyond. These are thin little lanes wide enough for a horse and cart, but not much else. The rain has cleared and the ride is delightful. Cumbria is now left behind, and the road enters Lancashire, accompanied by thriving farmlands whose rustic reveries are interrupted by slithers of early 20th century housing here and there, and plucky Milnthorpe, another small market town remarkable in its own confidence about its unremarkableness.
I rejoin the busier A6 and thread via patches of farmland and the occasional settlement, Beetham and then Carnforth. Finally the road becomes more developed, and more interesting, when it finally twists round into Morecambe.
Morecambe is a faded but still charming seaside resort on the Lancashire coast. What immediately strikes the traveller is the huge and magnificent bay immediately to one’s right as one follows the wide and still-majestic promenade from the north. It feels like it goes on forever, and the quality of the light is just unparalleled. Perhaps the sea and the right shaped bay can bring this out, possibly, as there is some superb light across the Hebrides and northern Highlands, and artists have long been drawn to other coastal places like St. Ives. But perhaps there’s something more here?
When the tide’s out, one can walk out onto this bay for miles, but at great risk. The bay quickly floods again with flows of water that rise faster than one can evade them. Many have drowned out here, caught in surprise by the terrible tides. I’d first heard of Morecambe through the infamous deaths of twenty-one Chinese cockle pickers on 5 February 2004. Inexperienced and unable to speak English, these illegal immigrants were exploited by locals and organised criminals in their own country and met a tragic end one night out on the bay, caught by sweeping tides in a country and environment they’d not been prepared for. The ‘Devil’s Beach’ was how one Chinese newspaper broke the story the following day. There’s countless other stories of drownings and disappearances, yet in the early evening light one gets little sense of the bay’s lurking menace.
Further down the promenade, more of the faded Victoriana and aspirational Art Deco design comes into view. There’s an ugly Seventies block at first, but past one encounters a parade of early 20th century and Victorian shops, offering candy, sticks of rock, fish and chips, cafes, and a surprising abundance of Chinese takeaways. There aren’t so many pubs or amusement arcades here as other seaside resorts like Yarmouth or Bridlington. Morecambe feels a little more dignified, but still trapped in its history. The hotels and boarding houses have gone, and other aspects of the town’s identity are beginning to unravel. The statue of Eric Morecambe on the promenade is bittersweet, a cheery reminder of the town’s illustrious and aspirational past, similarly captured in the works of Alan Bennett, who reckoned he was conceived in a boarding house either here or Filey!
They invented lettered rock and the helter-skelter here, apparently. And apocryphal rumours suggest that even the game of bingo had its origin, or at least its popularisation, here too. The piers have been washed away and the helter-skelter’s gone. Even the outdoor pools where Miss World contests were held during the 50s have been dismantled and taken down. This was once a huge holiday resort. ‘Bradford on Sea’ it was called in its prime during the first half of the 20th century, attracting industrial workers with a little spending money for some fresh air, exercise, and fun on the beach. Some signs of those times still remain, in the chunky bay windows and high steps that lead into Victorian townhouses that were once hotels, or towards the western side, boarding houses.
There’s the Winter Gardens, a large Victorian theatre and ballroom that’s been near-derelict since 1977, but still carries a majestic presence over the slightly shabby sea-front. There’s also the Midland Hotel, an extraordinary Art-Deco building that stands right on the edge of the promenade, a bold and pioneering Modernist construction of its time which still boasts charisma and high-living escapism today. It’s fraying around the edges, but I like the place.
Morecambe still captures much of what makes the English seaside resort so compelling and charismatic, no matter its faded facades or grubbiness. In a book I read later, Seaside Architecture by Kenneth Lindley of 1973, there’s these words which approach my feeling:
‘The English did not so much invent the seaside as respond to its nature, and even now when travel has opened up the world there is nowhere on earth where the spirit of the seaside finds better expressions than on an English beach. Some strange coincidence of climate, geology and character, accidents of time and place, have brought about that quality which we recognise as ‘seaside’.
I head back towards Blackburn’s chippie for a box of the good stuff with mushy peas, an accompaniment that only the northern chippie can get right. As I wait there’s a nosey woman in front bothering the assistants with requests to ‘smile luv’ and ‘tell us about your love life’. Some but not all of the visitors here are retired, perhaps revisiting a place that brought them great pleasure as a child, but in all the town doesn’t feel over-crowded, or too given over to the most tacky forms of attractions. Perhaps the problem is that it’s not given itself over to much at all. There seem to be few events on, and there’s no funfair or crazy golf I spot. It’s like it’s abandoned much of its intention of being a seaside resort, not wishing to struggle on without dignity as other seaside resorts have. I think I can understand it.
At the end of the promenade I spot a large shuttered up pub, a silver carbuncle of a café, and next to it, a friendly bronze-haired lady called Sonya who is kindly hosting me for the night. She’s from the town, and has a determined if at times frustrated love of the place. I drop my things back at her’s, and we spend the next few hours talking about Morecambe and the seaside resort.
Sonya’s a mine of information and anecdotes, and she’s done an immense amount of research on Morecambe’s history, particularly its use of modernist architecture. Railway companies sought to rapidly develop new seaside resorts with varying degrees of success, but great hopes and investments were placed here. Resorts aimed to be state of the art, and the use of Art Deco designs with a brazen confidence reflects the town’s own optimism during the early thirties. She shows me incredible photos of the promenade and the town in its heyday. She’s surprised that I don’t find it a particularly run-down place: perhaps the decline of Morecambe feels harder when one has grown up there. Cheap package holidays to the Mediterranean from the Seventies have killed off most of the income of these seaside resorts. Morecambe feels kind of stunned, but not altogether knocked out.
We go out for a stroll by the village of Heysham (pronounced He-shum) just south of Morecambe. The ferry to the Isle of Man sets off from here, but less well-known is a lovely stretch of wild land along the coast that we follow with Sonya’s dog Toby leading the way. At the end, just by a corner where one cliffs comes close to another, are the ruins of the 8th century St. Patrick’s chapel. It’s a delightfully spooky and creepy place, particularly with the many headstones and tall wild grasses of a cemetery and church just nearby. Our conversation turns from Morecambe, travelling, children (‘you’re always worrying about them. What if they die? What if I die? What if there’s a nuclear attack?’) to ghosts and our shared interest in weird conspiracy theories.
We find a pub and sit in the beer garden. Toby’s a lovely and playful chap, running into the pub and back out, keeping Sonya on her toes. She tells me about her work at the moment at a lettings agent. Many of the tenants she sees are ‘totally skint’, dependent on benefits, and to a degree trapped. They’re unable to work, and find themselves living in an area with a relatively high degree of unemployment, yet receiving benefits is becoming increasingly difficult. As Sonya points out to me, what good are food banks when people can’t afford to pay their gas or electricity to heat the food? She tells me about one tenant and the excessive charges she pays as part of the bedroom tax. ‘It’s like a war against the poor’, I say. ‘Did you not know?’, she replies, with a voice that speaks bitterness and sadness.
Poverty here isn’t quite absolute, but destitution is growing while remaining still hidden, and increasingly connoted with laziness and wilful ‘scrounging’. The real situation remains under the surface, invisible to the passing eye. Bad landlords, low pay and the disappearance of working rights make things even worse. Perhaps Morecambe’s uncertainty about its future, and the feeling of being trapped in between moments, just reflects the uncertainty, difficulties and frustrations of its people.
But it’s still a somewhat jolly place, and above all pleasant, friendly, if now much more quiet. We head back to her place in the west of the small town and chat into the late evening over some bottles of Lancaster Bomber made by the local Thwaites brewery. She shows me with some pride a brick, one of many that washed up on the beach from a nearby and now disused brickworks. These stones seem to reflect the town’s spirit, a little lost and adrift, but still proud, and still lovingly kept and retained in people’s memories and hearts, even when that love has been tested.
I feel so lucky and enriched to have met people along the way like Sonya, or Greg in Lochinver, or Ian in Filey – people with such expertise in their local area and its histories, people so friendly, open to strangers, kind and down-to-earth. Sonya contacted me just after reading this blog, and after an evening of great conversations and walks around this charming part of the world, I’m glad she did.
Before I fall asleep, I find these words in Lindley’s Seaside Architecture. They communicate to me, and perhaps you too, that feeling of loss and melancholia that the Victorian seaside resort presents, but also its naïve charms, its simple pleasures, and the sheer beauty of gazing out at the sunset from the promenade:
‘Electronical and mechanical wonders come and go but Punch and Judy last for ever. When Punch dies the seaside will go with him. When we have lost sight of the simple pleasures, and above all when we have lost our sense of wonder, then we shall destroy the seaside as we have already destroyed so much of our inland environment.’
Alan Bennett, Ambleside, Bowness, Carnforth, cockles, Cumbria, Englishness, Grasmere, Heysham, housing, Kendal, Lake District, Lancashire, lettered rock, Morecambe, seaside, wild camping, Wordsworth
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The USS Abraham Lincoln, left, is one of two U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf region.
FIRST ON CNN: U.S. considering whether to extend stay of aircraft carriers in waters around Iran
By Mike Mount
The U.S. is deciding whether to keep two aircraft carriers in the waters around Iran through the end of the year in a move that risks inflaming tensions with the regime, according to U.S. officials.
The decision entails extending the mandate to maintain an extra carrier in the region by three months, according to U.S. officials.
A 2010 directive by then Secretary of Defense Robert Gates added an additional carrier to the Persian Gulf region where the U.S. typically has kept only one carrier while not in actual full combat operations.
The directive is set to expire in September of this year, but the officials said the White House, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and top Navy officials are mulling over whether to extend the presence at a time when Iran continues its saber rattling with threats to close the main oil tanker route out of the Arabian Gulf at the Strait of Hormuz as well as its continued insistence to pursue a nuclear program.
The officials, who could not be named because they were not authorized to speak on the record about the discussions, said one of the hang-ups in the decision-making process is the justification for keeping an extra carrier in that region.
The 2010 Gates order to put the additional aircraft carrier presence in the Arabian Sea around Iran was to support the Afghanistan troop surge and troop draw-down in Iraq.
With U.S. troops now out of Iraq and a little more than two years before the final U.S. troops leave Afghanistan amid high tensions with Iran, a more diplomatic reason to keep two carriers might be needed.
Another reason in the decision-making process is how the Navy will balance needs for a carrier in other parts of the world, the officials said.
The service would never have a problem continuing to provide an additional carrier, the officials said, but it takes a good deal of planning to build the proper scheduling and timing in to move around the ships and their strike teams, the supporting ships.
With the Department of Defense announcing its new focus on the Asia-Pacific region and the Navy saying it will be moving 60% of its ships into the Pacific, Navy planners are stretching their minds around planning options for the additional stay in what the military calls the Central Command region that covers the Arabian Gulf and the Arabian Sea.
The officials did not have a timetable when a decision would be made.
The Navy has been rotating aircraft carriers in and out of the Arabian Gulf, generally keeping one in the Gulf and the other carrier close by in the North Arabian Sea.
Currently, the U.S. Navy has the USS Enterprise and the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf region. Pentagon officials have also said the USS Ponce, a new breed of command ship capable of basing Navy special operations forces, and four mine sweepers are in the Persian Gulf.
Post by: CNN's Mike Mount
Filed under: FIRST ON CNN/EXCLUSIVE • Iran • Middle East • Military • Navy
Talking Monkey
We better be careful there cuz Iran does have submarines something Iraq did not, the soviet produced Kilo's are the most dangerous as they are capable of sinking the carriers if they get in range 2 fire their torpedo's. If the pentagon sends a task force with hunter killer subs to the area then there's a possibility of a strike on Iran happening very soon.
Name*hst73
Time to get it on... No boots on the ground. Air and sea will do the trick. Iran is a paper tiger. They know it, we know it, enough with the war of words. Destroy their nuclear capabilities in their entirety. Pull the dang trigger.
Yeah, the US military has had that illusion since before WW2. Being continuously proved wrong for almost 70 years has done nothing to cure them of it.
No wonder this country's in such trouble with you warmongering idiots voting every four years, Name*hst73. We need to rid ourselves of this kind of ignorance such as you displayed above. There is an adage saying that ignorance is bliss, but I strongly disagree!!!
You, peace princess, are the idiot. Iran if left unchecked will develop nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them globally. Educate yourself on exactly who we are discussing. Simply google and read just a few of the threats the mullahs and that crazy little president of theirs have spewed in juat the last two years. Stay on the sideline with you picket sign for peace and let the realists deal with these whack jobs.
July 13, 2012 at 10:18 am |
Iran sponsors terrorism, aids Syria and north Korea and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. You must be brain dead
July 16, 2012 at 8:26 pm |
why US wanna play with fire? if war has started then we must blame america not iran
your user says it all...
USS Ponce
Who was the genius who named that one!
(for those Yanks who don't know it "ponce" is a slang term for a pimp or effeminate person).
gsnlou
It was named after a person's last name whom the US Navy deemed significant.
Mk8btr
Ahem... The USS Enterprise was gonna get decommissioned , now it's the sitting duck for a false flag operation to give the US an excuse to attack Iran. October sounds like the right time to do it, with elections around the corner. Israeli Subs are perfect to pull it off and blame it on Iran... Anyway, it's a good thing to put a stop to Iran's nuclear ambitions. It's not the military nuclear threat that worries me, it's the vision of a nuclear disaster in the region due to the plants being run by mobs of Homer Simpsons.
wow i can see now where the waste of american tax payers money goes to. either the american people are dumb or dont give a hoot because what a complete waste of time and money.
Paul Martin expat Welsh foreign correspondent
Americ has NO choice now.....when dealing with the iranian SNAKE-LIKE regime but to provoke their wrath so America can decapitate the monster's head before it expands and causes further grief to the free World......hey that's us folks ! GO AMERICA.....fear NOT the wrath of imbeciles and morons !
Such is to be expected from someone like you with your obvious lack of intelligence, Paul. This "Go America, Go!" bit is causing all the trouble as we Americans have no business sending any battleships to that part of the world. We need to adopt a laissez-faire foreign policy as soon as possible!
I believe that your sarcasm detector is broken.
......CUE flag waving and get that guy dressed as G Wash out there..................
The "wrath" of Iran? The same was said of the 5th largest army in the world back in 1990. Ooooh, the Iraqis are battle hardened. Ooooh, the Iraqis are seasoned warriors. Ooooh, the US hasn't fought a war since Vietnam,(Panama and Grenada excluded). Lest we forget who the Iraqis had fought a war against. The Iranians.
Zoglet
More US middle east destablisation and fearmongering.
Its wiser to go back home!!!!
xfiler93
The US military is not scared of Iran. if they want it, bring it. The Stone age will be in their future, dam*ed camel thumpers.
People like you are why we are in economic + political disaster.
Fear? Fact!
People like YOU are the reason this country will slip into decline. Debt? HA! Really? Is that what you fear?
U.S. military belongs entirely to israel.
The ONLY way we could make the Iranian government happy is to let them make Uncle Sugar an Iranian state.
What a game we play ! The decision has been made....an AirWING has been told they are not going on cruise until December instead of July. They have stood down. The reason was that the two Carrier in the gulf will be cut back and watch ! if changes...then they can be on spot by Dec. Figure Sept to Dec is a small window. And in Dec if the tension is still low the Carrier will just replace the one on station....What a media game w play....they feed us what they want.
I know this for facts, after 30 years in the Navy.
Good job...USN
Jannani
CNN: Where is Arabian Gulf? CNN is a Zionist propaganda machine. Shame CNN.
OffTheWorldPolitics
The United States needs to handle Iran similar to how the Russians handled Grozny. Nation building in Iran is not an option during these harsh economic times. Since the Iranian government controls the media, warn the populous what is about to occur. Let the people know that their government is putting their lives in jeopardy. Give them ample time to flee, or take control of the government. The world is united against a nuclear Iran, the Iranian people need to come to terms with their government. They need to take take responsibility.
Arabian Gulf? Where is that?
Brush up on you geography; check a map..................
quinterius
What maps? All legitimate maps show Persian Gulf dummy.
Then may be you should brush up on your manners.....
Oh, I forgot; this is how you were raised.
I can't find it...
Nobody is scared of these behemoths. People should read the Pentagon report that came out yesterday about the increased accuracy and effectiveness of Iranian missiles. Bloomberg BusinessWeek had an article about it. These aircraft carriers are sitting ducks for Iranian missiles. Iran is not crazy and is not going to try anything stupid. So, all we do is spend enormous sums of money supporting these monstrosities thousands of miles away.
Google search "Phalanx CIWS"
our carriers are safe from missiles.
CNN refused to print my response. So, I guess we have to toe the line.
fredcanuck
I hope you are right... but I get the feeling that carriers may be a weapons system designed to fight the LAST war (battleships were the great weapons of ww1.
fredthehopple
I hope you are right... but I get the feeling that carriers may be a weapons system designed to fight the LAST war (Battleships were the great navy weapons of ww1, but when deployed in ww2, they were nearly insignificant. Carriers became the masters of the seas in WW2).
nabun
Yes because we all know all weapons systems are perfect and there is no such thing as murphy's law.
........and .....WHAT IF..............an Iranian missle sunk an aircraft carrier?.........................Just how long would Iran burn?
No, how long before the US will call uncle? The sinking of an American aircraft carrier will be a monumental insult to American pride, showing that the time for gunboat diplomacy is past. If on the other hand, the US goes on a mad assault on Iran then all bets are off. All US interests in the entire world will be targeted.
It is time to end all this stupid talk about war. There is absolutely no reason for a war between the US and Iran. Incompetent Obama needs to stop listening to the lunatics in Israel. But, nothing is going to happen until the presidential elections.
commonsensefp
Anyone suggesting that Iran's missiles are currently capable of sinking a US aircraft carrier has frankly no business commenting on this issue. Not to fear, as 99% of the other comments on this story indicate you are not alone in falling into this class.
commonsensefp: Do you remember what the Exocet missile did to the British warship in the Falkland war? The Chinese Silkwork is even better and Iran can launch hundreds of missiles and torpedoes at US ships.
Exactly, aircraft carriers are a holdover from the WW II era when military aircraft had limited range and such things as forward airbases were non-existent. In the modern world they are an anachronism and a very expensive liability. They typify the idiot mentality of the military and the greed of industry. But , hey, someone needs to keep all the useless people good for nothing else employed. It might as well be the American taxpayer.
Knowing the mindset of the right-wing thugs in Washington, the U.S. will doubtlessly maintain it's fleet in the Persian Gulf in full force. In fact, the only country the U.S. military left was Vietnam and that's only because we failed to win there!!!
Bangash
Every one in the world is agree on one point that America is matchless in weapon business, having dumped deadly weapons on earth and oceans and in the name of star wars, taking same deaths to the sky. Is America has born to kill and destroy human civilization on earth?
Willie12345
Sadly enough Bangash, the answer to your question above seems to be an unequivocal yes! This will always be the case as long as the American people keep on electing the wrong people into office!
rex edie
it doesnt matter who we elect anymore... the country has been taken over by the war manufactures and contractors who use the pentagon to justify our continued warring. otherwise ..how will they stay in business. Eisenhower said it right when he gave his farewell speech in 1961. "if the military industrial complex ever gains control of the U.S. government..we will never again see peace in our lifetime." If you manufacture weapons of war...you have to manufacture reasons to use them. they are slowly killing our government and country as well.
America has invaded sixty countries since world war 2.
bigmart
You would think they would be good at it by now. Instead of the continued botched jobs they do. And its no fault of the troops on the ground either its the arm chair QBs in Washington
MDC58
I'm glad the USA is defending the free world and its values. Nazism and communism has been defeated, now it's time to tackle the greatest danger to humanity: radical Islam.
And radical capitalism
You can't pin that entirely on the US. Since the US lacks the resources to develop many high performance critical weapons systems components, more and more are being supplied by high tech industry in Europe and Asia.
usa is lucky we live in the nuclear age and a war cannot happend or else china and russia would kill 10 of millions of usa british and european soldiers. if russia drops one bomb it will be game over u would all be turned into chalc powder charcoal dust it would burne the entire usa and britain of the surface if the earth not only the citys the forests the ozon layer the athmosphere serious u people cannot even imagine the power of a soviet style 20 megaton war head only the shockwave would level half of britain and dont even forget the 50 kilometer fire ball that comes after.
........NOTHING ALIVE NOW...............WOULD SURVIVE...................ANYWHERE....................
Some Question?
Like this is even a question? as long as American troops are in harms way, they will always need and have the Navy to provide support. Iran may be led by dingbats, but even a dingbat fears.
Get real, the Navy does not have a particularly good track record of supporting troops on the ground in combat.
The madness the U.S Results to for Israel is unbelievable, which provides absolutely no Geo-Political benefits what so ever. Israel has been a curse to the U.S and all of Mankind since its creation in 1948. But then again the Israeli Lobby are running things in the American, the electoral process means nothing, the Federal Reserve being an example, Democracy is just a lie.
MidEast Mad man
Israel is blessed by God (the True one). All those that bless them shall be blessed. All those that curse them shall be cursed. Sorry Simon.....you lose.
Big Moo
Why bother arguing with him. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force him to drink.
Simon is probably not such a bad guy. A lot of us are tired of the Israelis, their whining politicians, their attempts to influence our politics, and of course their insatiable greed for American money. Even if there were a god who gave them other peoples land and homes, he probably would have advised them not to be such jerks.
you are talking nonsense..If god was ever with you ..then ..you shoudl be able to tell what shall happen tomorrow..God is never with you..If it was..God would have saved you from hitler..So In reality God exists..and god is present for all..God is present for all who love god..YOu dont need to be israli to love god...or belive god..
Whatever on the God thing, but it would be great not to have the Isrealis hanging around whining and cadging money. Very bad mistake to ever get mixed up with the little fellow.
StanCalif
You honestly believe this? Islam believes "they" are the blessed ones! This is what creates wars!!!
You just can't be satisfied no matter what! Ever heard the phrase "Live and let live"?
Islamisbad
What is even more amazing is how Muslims are so taken by Jews. If the Jews built a city on the moon; Muslims would claim that it was theirs because they were there first.
Go read a history book before talking nonsense!
true that !!!!
my true that...was meant for Simon....not islamisbad....
randale
shift the carriers into pacific....
It took a while but I finally found a logical comment buried in the countless uninformed analyses(Iranian missiles can sink U.S. aircraft carrier??? Really everybody???) merely spouting conspiratorial paranoia. @Randale You fine sir, are a gentleman and a scholar and a damn fine (I presume) American.
GOPisGreedOverPeople
The GOP solution: Turn all Old, Sick, Poor, Non-white, Non-christian, Unemployed, and Gay people into slaves. Then whip them until they are Young, Healthy, Rich, White, Christian, Employed, and Straight. Or until they are dead. Then turn them into Soylent Green to feed the military.
Why can't us freaks & norms just get along?
Maybe because it's too hard to tell a difference anymore.Freaky is normal and normal is just too darn freaky...
True...
It completely and miserably failed to scare the Iranians, it is a waste of taxpayers money and will achieve nothing except embarassing the beligerent posture of America before an incrisingly aware world opinion. '
Call it back home NOW!
Comments like this are quite hilarious...it's like people trying to claim the death penalty isn't a deterrent. Tell me, just how do you know that the carrier's presence didn't stop the Iranians from doing something or taking a different posture? Just as no one can really quantify how many crimes didn't happen because people didn't think that it was worth receiving the death penalty for. It is far more likely that both were a deterrent than not....unless of course you have some zombies floating in water telling you of yet to happen events..aka The Minority Report.
Mr Mister
Very confusing. Sometimes it is the Persian Gulf. Sometimes it is the Arabian Gulf. ???????
Cocopuf
... the Arabian Gulf is much more appropriate of a name considering the surroundings there. It should be changed accordingly.
So you are saying that the media should be allowed to rewrite history and change the name to please the arabs?
Mr Mister, I noticed that too. Maybe it is a new trend by this writer or CNN to please both sides in the naming conflict of Persian gulf?
It's Persian Gulf not Arabian Gulf, you ignorant Mike Dismount.
How about "Towel Head Gulf"? Hahahahahahahahahahahhaa
Raghead
I prefer my name
The refusal to recognise the Persian Gulf accordingly is a childish American strategy that has proved irrelevant at all levels. The insistence in pursuing such a stuppid posture only proves the brain damage status of the writer of this article!
It's not an American dispute. It's a dispute between the Arab nations and Iran. There is no American meddling in the name of that body of water. Grow up, "Julian".
adonison
Why should you answer a decently worded question with such pleasant vocabulary? Doesthat speak of your standard of brought up? Respect open air discussions.
I agree with Robert as far as saying it is not an American dispute. It is a political issue though and politicians have referred to the Persian gulf as Arabian gulf to please the arab nations. That is to be expected in politics but not from someone writing for CNN as their job is to report and not to change facts. I am Persian myself so I am sure you can guess which name I use.
j. von hettlingen
As the USS Ponce operates from international waters, it's no longer dependant on the goodwill of allies and hosts, who can veto American missions initiated from bases on their territory. A smart solution to the ever volatile and fluid situation that we see in the Middle East.
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Active duty Navy SEALS at February premiere of "Act of Valor"
(CNN) - Deep inside the military's special operations forces there is a crisis of conscience unfolding. The publication of "No Easy Day," a former Navy SEAL's account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, is forcing many to rethink a fundamental point of military honor. How much should America's commandos talk about what they do?
It's a debate that goes beyond disclosure of classified information, which is a crime. The discussion now centers on honor, ethics and cultural values inside the ranks.
"This is a battle for the conscience of the SEALs," a recently retired senior SEAL told me.
He served for decades in operational positions in the force, and has never told me any of the details of his missions. For years he did what every SEAL has done: Go on raids, find targets and, if necessary, kill them. It's what the nation asks of them.
Buzz ramps up over SEAL's bin Laden book
The question now: Is the SEAL community taking that Tom Clancy superman image and turning it into celebrity? "Was No Easy Day" indeed that last straw?
"It's a generational thing that is happening to some extent," the retired SEAL said. Some younger SEALs who have grown up in the age of the Internet and instant online communications simply feel it's their right to talk about their work, as long as they can claim it's not classified, he said.
This senior SEAL said he and his peers grew up in a generation where "we don't talk about what we do," and he feels it should be kept that way.
In fact, the chief Navy SEAL wrote a scathing e-mail to his 2,500 troops, which began with the fundamental SEAL ethos.
"We do NOT advertise the nature of our work, NOR do we seek recognition for our actions," said Rear Adm. Sean Pybus.
Pybus told the men he is "disappointed, embarrassed and concerned" that troops are now openly speaking and writing about what they do.
"Most of us have always thought that the privilege of working with some of our nation's toughest warriors on challenging missions would be enough to be proud of, with no further compensation or celebrity required.
"Today, we find former SEALs headlining positions in a presidential campaign; hawking details about a mission against Enemy Number 1; and generally selling other aspects of NSW training and operations."
Pybus continued: "For an Elite Force that should be humble and disciplined for life, we are certainly not appearing to be so. We owe our chain of command much better than this."
Every SEAL, indeed everyone in U.S. military special operations units, knows exactly what Pybus is saying. He's warning that fundamental trust is at risk. And the risk is on many levels, from the campfire to the Oval Office.
Matt Bissonnette wrote in his book about casual chatter among SEALs, which he portrayed as less than supportive of President Obama. An Army special operations guy who read that passage was shocked.
"That's just 'team talk' around the fire," he said.
Does anybody expect that to show up in a book? The men on these small covert units literally place their lives in the hands of each other. They trust that they'll keep each others' confidence. And confidence must be unshakeable at the highest levels.
Bergen: Sense and nonsense about Obama and Osama
Pybus' reference to a chain of command is read by some to mean only one thing: the president of the United States. A president has to fundamentally believe when he sends SEALs on a secret mission to kill the world's top terrorist that those in the rank and file aren't going to start talking.
Of course, there has been plenty of chatter about Obama administration officials themselves talking too much about the raid. Now there has been outright admission classified information was exposed.
Pentagon spokesman George Little acknowledged classified information about the raid did get out in the hours and days after bin Laden was killed.
"We were all deeply concerned, not just in this building, but elsewhere in the administration, about the disclosure of highly classified information that made its way out the door," he said. "I don't know precisely who did it, but it shouldn't have happened. And many of us tried to keep some of those sensitive details, particularly those involving sources and methods, from making their way to press reports."
Little was the CIA spokesman at the time of the raid.
But many believe there is a difference between Pentagon officials disseminating information and rank and file members of the military sharing it. If service members want to write a book, the material has to be reviewed before publication. If a service member believes he or she needs to bring wrongdoing to light, there are procedures within the military for whistle-blowing. Bissonnette did not follow the rules, the Pentagon said.
In fact, in the book's introduction, Bissonnette justifies his book, writing "It is time to set the record straight" and, "This book will finally give credit to those who earned it." It's odd phrasing, because so many, including Pybus and Adm. William McRaven, the head of all 65,000 special operations forces across the military, think the SEALs have received plenty of credit around the world for killing bin Laden.
Both admirals are agonizing over the emergence of SEALs as celebrities as well as political operatives.
McRaven is aiming squarely at a group of former SEALs actively opposing President Barack Obama. The admiral is referring to the Special Operations OPSEC Education Fund, which has sponsored a Web video featuring former special forces officers accusing the president of taking too much credit for the killing of Osama bin Laden and allowing classified information about the raid to become public.
While McRaven said former SEALs have the right to express their opinions, he wants any link to the active duty force to be kept out of it. "By attaching a special operations moniker or a unit or service name to a political agenda, those individuals have now violated the most basic of our military principles," McRaven said in his e-mail message to the troops.
McRaven and Pybus know their worries are raising eyebrows. That's because the Pentagon itself has encouraged worldwide commercial interest in SEAL lore. In one case, top Pentagon and CIA officials offered their support for the upcoming "Zero Dark Thirty," a movie that Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is making about the bin Laden raid.
Some in Congress have complained that the Pentagon and CIA should not have offered the filmmaker background briefings.
Active duty Navy SEALs also were given permission to perform in the Hollywood thriller "Act of Valor."
Also, Pentagon sources told CNN, SEALs are also working on two other Hollywood movies.
The recently retired senior SEAL summed up the problem for his brothers in arms since the Bin Laden raid: "We swallowed the golden egg. But now we can't get rid of it."
Read excerpts from "No Easy Day"
Filed under: McRaven • Military • Navy SEALs • Osama bin Laden • Special Operations Forces • Terrorism
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it's natural to put the SOF community into the limelight. They're the best, they set the standard for all kind of stuff. They are downright exciting. In turn, it's natural for them to enjoy that limelight, they bust their *55es, get really good at some really hard stuff and bring home the bacon for the USA (or save it). Like many people who are excellent, many of them probably wouldn't be that way if they didn't have a reasonably healthy ego (justified pride in capabilities and accomplishments). Which culturally they usually suppress, but here's an opportunity to let it out a little.
Problem is, both these natural reactions (can) produce bad results. A force that needs to come and go and it's like they were never there, needs to not be in the public eye. so maybe the military's PR people need to up their game, take SOF back less public, and sell them on mystery and rumor rather than letting Johnny Pimples think he's got all access via his Xbox. (And no, I don't care if this particular incident happened without authorization. The government sets the tone for how these units are presented (or not) to the public. They can set a different tone.)
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Either a 't/r/o/l/l or worse. Precisely why this book should have been vetted!
Not like the military would lie to us. Anyone remember Pat Tillman??
Most SEAL's are fed up with Obama. Only the retired ones dare say anything, because a soldier was booted for bad mouthing the idiot in chief.
Anyone remember when he brought charges against three of them for "Ruffing up" a terrorist? Just the fact that they are trying so hard to discredit him makes me want to buy the book, must be some really good stuff in it!
I don't know why you think your current president is an idiot? At least he knows how to talk properly and conduct himself unlike your previous president. As for how to treat terrorists yes they are guilty but beating them only lowers us to their standards. The only thing that will come out of this is that there could be problems for future missions because let's face it..it was not to embarass the military or President Obama but to make a buck. This SEAL member should be tried and convicted under the military rule that forbids him to discuss operations....it's called protecting national security!!!
the president knows how to "talk roperly"–sure-that's the objection–with "trying the navy seal as to "protecting national security"–he only wants to "make a buck"–1–anyone can "talk the talk"-properly–can they "walk the walk"?–2-"protecting national security"?–who-to this moment- as to leaks within the political establishment–has been tried for not "protecting "national security"?–3-"make a buck"–maybe you're unaware as to how many members of Congress-and the President himself–that have made "a buck"–google how many are now millionaires-and were not-before they were elected–he is no more eligible to be held accountable for his violation of "national security"-than the "political establishment"–unless you're one who believes that men in uniform should be held accountable-while men in "suits and ties"-are not to be–as with most-it appears your concentration is centered on the individual problem-not the overall problem–im sure this seal knows how many states there are in the usa-since the president does not–i-and i only speak for myself–i also consider him an "idiot"–as to proper language-maybe you should edit the dictionary–the word is in there-of course it probably would not be gracious to use it when having tea..apparently there are people whom believe in "do as i say"–and not "do as i do"–it's called "equal justice under the law"–politicians put there pants on no different than i do–address the problem–as a whole,,
I agree with you! Why did the retired SEAL pick on other Seals?
It was OBAMA who blabbed that it was SEAL 6 on the Bin Laden raid
And it was OBAMA who gave Hollywood the details of the raid to make an Obama propaganda film!!!
If the Commander-in-Chief can do it..................eh? Obama - leading by example - NOT! Hypocrites.
Bruce Berry
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Eagle Two
Bruce, what abot the Director of the NSA who violated security by mentioning Steal Team 6 and a mission. That is TS/SAR. Go after him. He placed all of this in public domain. Not the Seals
Solid "Trigger and mouth discipline" go hand in hand. Once is either one is lost..... there is bound to be unintended casualties.
God bless those Americans willing to sacrifice so that others may sleep well at night.
mstandupish
Rear Admiral Pybus is right. The SEALs who are using their service to advance their own political or personal agenda are a disgrace. And some of them, like the swift boat birther SEALs Larry Bailey and Benjamin Smith of the OPSEC swiftboat group, are just downright crazy and more than a little bit scary. http://www.whoisformernavysealbenjaminsmith.com I thank them for their service, but just because they were a SEALs once upon a time does not mean they automatically have honor, integrity, or credibility.
Looks like no one is buying into the honor and integrity mantra of the most corrupt department in the government. It was only a matter of time until that scam collapsed. The entire concept of service is obsolete in modern American society, just look at the kind of people in leadership positions. Then putting this so-called raid in perspective, a heavily armed company sized air-assault on a small compound 'defended' by children, wives, and in-laws with handguns, is hardly the stuff legends are made of, kind of a big joke really.
LDDirect
Let's face it the guy had a big mouth and should be punished as those including the Obama Administration. I will say I was in the navy once upon a time and a secret was a secret in those days....this guy along with the Obama Chronies should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.
what do obama has to do with people not keeping there mouth closed please dang blaming he for what the seals think they did with out him remember seals if he didnt tell you to move u would be at home doing nothing
All ops done with approval of our congress and commanders and in the name of what is right and just (like going after terrorists...) SHOULD BE CLASSIFIED.
Congress is not the Commander In Chief of the military for a very good reason. If you had to get a popular vote on every operations, nothing would get done because Congress is incapable of doing anything in less than a month, if they do it at all. And, military operations cannot become hostage to partisan politics – remember how much the Congress has done in the last two years just due to one party being more interested in an election than what is right. You want that to happen to military operations too??
polonelmeagrejr
Rick – Yeah, great. WHty don't we just put every important decision on the internet for a quick thumbs up or down. e.g. North Korea- 1 for bomb 2 dor diplomacy 3.) investigate members of the congress for North KOrean sympathies and or/ ancestry. I am glad we have a President of intelligence, restraint, action (where indicated) and compasssion. Not a rube who will be tricked by a single provocative action.
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God bless our brave Navy SEALs – everyone else shut-up and grow some balls...!
I guess we are fortunate Juliette that you are not a Navy seal. As your irrational decision to make such a nonsensical comment would be indicative of your propensity for being irrational and thoughtless. Not what is needed in a Navy seal were it you nor the seal this whole debate is centered around.
Ignore him Juliette. You are correct. These people who decided not to give up their careers at the drive-up window to serve their country don't have a clue what they are talking about and their opinions are meaningless.
Wow! I have awaken the ignorant giant. First off, being that I have quite a successful white collar job I will dispense with addressing your pathetic attempt to demean the working class. Furthermore, having served my country faithfully for over ten years and within the intelligence community, I take comfort in knowing that I can and do speak with greater authority on this matter than either you will ever be able to. You may return to your normal programming, "Stupid is as you are". Cheers.
Civilians – sit around on their behinds while others keep them safe.
At last the question of honor comes up. I respect many, but when that movie Act of Valor came out and the interviews and the book... I said to only a few so as to not be misunderstood and labled unpatriotic "what happend to honor" Generation thing I guess. Though the new generation is very good and should be proud, they strive to become somethign like a Seal because its what they see Charlie Sheen in the movie and its cool. You get the chicks... The utmost honor is you be the best, and go home at the end of the day not needing to talk or tell the story. As they said in the article, its what they do. Everyone likes to be recognized for jobs well done and being good at what you do, but by the very nature of the work, some jobs we need to sacrifice that recognition and know that at least there is a clsoe knit family in the groups that know and recognize. To NOT seek the glory of the big screen or talk show circuit is the most honorable you can be. My hates off to all in all walks of life that do their jobs each day, and my special thanks to those that must do it in secret. People know these groups exist and are grateful for them. Don't seek attention, esp in covert ops even if retired I would not want to broadcast anything if at least for my own safety into this global world. Your need not recogntion from books or movies, already appreciated and a one of the valued assets in the US.
puddintane
Honor and stuff is so mercurial in the US... When Bill Clinton was caught cheating on Hillary his fans shrieked it was a private matter, to leave them alone, not a leadership issue, etc. and his lying to the public downplayed as a minor thingy. "He had no other choice"
That shows up a lot here – we all have virtually no choice but to lie, commit violence, insult, threaten every day, especially when it comes to protecting celebrities or trying to share their thunder.
A man lying about an affair hardly compares to the actions of this Navy seal. Navy seals like all members of the US Navy are held to higher standard than civilians and are expected to not only uphold by exemplify the Navy's core values as well as their solemn oaths to their professions. Do not try to mix military professions with that of everyday citizens nor government officials. The seal in question should be reprimanded severely for his actions so as to set the tone going forward that what he has done has never been deemed acceptable and never will be. Military service is not just a job, its a way of life that demands that service to country always comes before self and if he was true to what was believed to be his calling then, it would still hold true that a service member can leave the service but the service never leaves them.
A veteran
Kjohnson – why don't you point out specifically what this SEAL did for which he needs to be reprimanded? You can't because you haven't read the book. I've read his book and hundreds of other memoirs or accounts of battle and war as written by those that were involved (including presidential memoirs), and this book falls right in line. He doesn't mention names, locations, special tactics, special weaponry, super secret gadgets etc. In fact, I learned more about the raid from the White House/Pentagon releases (leaks) than what is in this book. In fact, this book is almost virtually in line with the final version from the White House. What differs? The death and transport of Bin Laden.
A veteran – Let me explain it to you and hopefully you will understand where this SEAL went wrong. Given the nature of special ops missions, all special ops troops come into contact with the results of intelligence work done at the SCI-level. As such, these folks sign a non-disclosure agreement regarding intelligence and other classified data. If you go online and read the non-disclosure agreement (DD Form 1847) in detail:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dd_1847_1.pdf
You can see that it clearly states that anytime anyone who signs that agreement decides to publish anything related to their work with this type of classified information, is required to have it reviewed by the DoD (Paragraph 4). Having a private third party review any potential publication doesn't count and is irrelevant. Whether or not there is classified information in the book is actually not necessary to get this individual into trouble legally. This individual decided to ignore the process that he signed a legal contract to follow, and should be held accountable for the consequences laid out in the non-disclosure agreement.
What Clinton did was stupid. He put himself in a position to be blackmailed. What Bissonnette did was stupid. Two stupids do not offset each other.
Ex Navy Seals writing books exposing all of our classified information.....help us!!!!!!
I fully understand the need for Not revealing details when teams have to do tasks that could be compromised ,
And too early of a public reveal afterwards could endanger family and other team members . . .
However at some point , those of us that are grateful for their sacrifices would like to recognize them and have some form of tribute .
Sadly , there are those that just want gory details for entertainment ( grew up & maybe still live on war video games ) so command needs to find a way that the teams can be honored withOut compromising the missions and withOut feeding the mental gamers .
But until they figure it out , we should let the teams know we are grateful for their very hard work & sacrifices .
JON MICHAEL
"CAMPFIRE TALK" should remain just that. One warrior should not presume to speak for anyone but himself. HOWEVER, regarding the account how that one particular evening unfolded; if the POTUS presumes to lie about with impunity, that SEAL has EVERY right to set the record straight. Keeping silent has everything to do with maintaining honor, but nothing to do with becoming a willing accomplice in a lie at the highest echelons.
Edward C.
"We do NOT advertise the nature of our work, NOR do we seek recognition for our actions," said Rear Adm. Sean Pybus."
Correct! The pansy suits sitting comfortably in an air-conditioned room take credit for it!
Yes, they take credit for it and they also take responsibility for it......do you understand the difference?
oldbones24
I am so ashamed of this Seal. I grew up in the Marines my dad was a lifer. He held his WW2 and Korean war secrets to the day he died. Trust me I tried to pull them out of him and he avoided the subject to the end. Where have our Honorable soldiers gone? If you can't live by the rules don't join.
Oldbones – my father too was WWII Marine Vet who would not tell his stories. As he told me, it wasn't so much that they were secret, but they were so devestating to recall. It is not dishonorable to write a memoir, nor is it dishonorable to give you opinion of politicians. One of the most famous Marines, and 31st Commandant of the USMC – Viktor Krulak wrote the book First to Fight. In this book he describes the history of the Marine Corps, including battles and first hand accounts – but he also writes in great detail about the struggles he had with politicians and the President regarding the Corps and doesn't hold anything back. If you're going to call this SEAL dishonorable based on what an article says withouth reading the book – go ahead and call GEN Krulak dishonorable as well.
Sir, you are comparing apples and oranges when trying to compare the actions of these two men. I would never call Gen Krulak's conduct nor his service anything other than honorable and deserving of every ounce o appreciation a grateful nation should render him. My thanks to your father for his service as well.
The concept of tight lips is not exclusive to the military, there is an ancient Persian saying "You are slave to what you say, master to what you keep." Throughout the ages the wise have understood this; the very word "secretary" revolves around this concept, it means an official trustee to privy information. Even the Bible extolls the virtue of being a private, discreet person on important matters. Humanity is exquisitely predatory, and your secrets are the first things that others will use against you.
Rudy the Brave
My cousin served for 6 years and then got out, or retired as they say in the military. He found out that with an honorable discharge he could go to the Veteran's Administration and be classififed as "disabled." So, this is what he did. Next, when he wasn't training for marathons, he set up a small business that listed what he did in the military as what his business does. Then, he started applying for government contracts and was given many opportunities because he is a disabled veteran. When he told the story this summer at our family reunion everyone laughed when he said that he makes more than ten times what he could have made in uniform and he never has to leave home. He was jumping up and down and saying that he never felt better in his life. There are many smart people that volunteer to serve and then see the business side of defense is much more lucrative. I'll laugh if the seal author follows up with a NO EASY DAY snowglobe, key chains, pen and pencil set, velcro-adjustable ballcap, and 5 day seminar with hands-on, tactical instruction. If people would pay in advance to read the story, think of how much they will pay to actually talk to the man and leave with a No EASY DAY screensaver and special music CD.
BigAl
you keep your mouth shut...PERIOD.
Having read many of the comments in this thread, I have only one question. Were LSD and other mind-altering drugs legalized and nobody told me? I have never read so much gibberish in my life. For every one intelligent, cogent thought, there are 50 that are just raving mad.
As someone with 27 years in the military – 14 in the SOF, I can tell you there is one thing that no one should need an NDA to tell them. You NEVER talk about anything you did – EVER. Why? Because your former comrades are still out there, trying to do a tough job without getting their butts shot off and you don't know where they are or what they are doing today. The enemy is not stupid. They take a piece of information that you thought was "unclassified" or "unimportant" and couple it with other tidbits of information that other people thought were unclassified or unimportant to reveal a classified operation or capability. This is not some "freedom of information" or "we have the right to know" freekin game for civilians to play. People can get killed.
You hit it right on the head. More than anything you make sure you take care of those that served with you. The author of "No Easy day" sold out his unit and the entire SEAL family.
This book righter is a punk .He is just after the money .
A REALIST
So why did the SEALS cooperate (and act in) "Act of Valor?"
If the Brass in the SEALS is so concerned about publicity, why cooperate and basically make the movie?
Eddie V
Act of Valor started out as a recruiting tool for the Navy SEALs. The Brass allowed the SEALs to participate in the movie and had final say what made it into movie.
Has anyone ever heard much information about the Special Air Service (SAS) or Special Boat Service (SBS), the special forces of the British (or even Australian and New Zealand) armed forces ? Or the Canadian Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2) ?
Probably not?
GOOD! Because those guys do their job without the fanfare.
The administration leakng details is bad enough. But for the troops themselves to be doing it is borderline treason! Not only are they selling-out their units and comrades for publicity and money, but also for politics! The armed forces are supposed to be neutral, and follow the legitimate orders of their commander-in-chief, whoever they may be and whatever his policies.
These SEALs are ruining the reputation of the many before them who fought so hard.
If Obama can try to capitalize off the bin Laden raid, why shouldn't everyone else?
The President set the standard....the SEALS are following his lead.
fiftyfive55
someone beart someone to the punch and somebody else is upset,oh well
i am a veteran saw a lot of things the goverment asked its military to do some good some bad . bottom line is war is war it is not pretty or allways right. we as military people fight for the people of the US not who is running our goverment. we talk about dem and rep.dem want and are on there way to trying to make us dependent on the goverment if you don't understand what i just said then you probly think its allright for the goverment to give you money food tell you what to drink how you should pray what schools and what subjects your kids will do ect ect . most of the wars we have fought in was to keep the US from becoming what i just wrote about as to the seal writtng about what happen . it happen its war and the reason the military does not tell you all the facks is the adverage person will never be able to understan it . i see many comments in here and relize 60% of them are from people who have never served or refuse to join the service. but want to run there mouth about someting they know nothing about.
sweetgeorgiabrown
I never served but still feel like running my mouth. Like you, you can't type or spell but you still choose to post incoherent arguments on this site. Thankfully the military never needed you to correctly use the english language.
now be sweet georgia–his education-or wht he was taught to write or sell-this country's systemof teaching consistently shows us neat the bottom-on science-math-and literally every other subject–then again-the president said there were 57 states–nothing like a "role model"..
great comment, bob-we fight for the people of this country-not for who is running it–too many narcissists-that's why there is a political arena–most-and all we can do is vote–most are running around with a lunchbox-one sandwich empty..
man your confused or brainwashed here.show me someone who believes what you said about fighting for the people and not the government.we the people didnt want to be in the mideast to begin with,it was always big business interests over there,and profits,not the concerns of the people.
im not confused-never said i was in the middle east–your premise as to that –no basis–the overall thought presented was that the individual-in uniform-is fighting-regardless of the political interests-for you and others to voice your beliefs or non- beliefs-which you have-maybe a little more wisdom-or open-mindednes is warranted–then again-maybe not–as to brainwahing–you're probably one who doesn't even know what the word means-and a little behind the times–it's referred to as "behavior modification"–and if i am confused or brainwashed-don't believe you have the mentality to modify it--take another shower-and relieve your anxiety–it'll get better...
wow,You like to insult people who dont agree with you,instead of a discussion,you insult.You are the one who needs a shower and a bit more knowledge of the American people.
you are the one who"insulted a person who doesn't asgree with you"-if you consider it a "discussion" to indicate that i am "concused" or "brainwashed"–well-my take on that is it is indicative of an "insult"–so if my response was "insulting"–it was meant to be–a disagreement is just that–a derogatory assertion as to one's character is another–if that's beyond your perception–suggestion-speak to an objective friend–my comments are my perceptions-so are yours-when my state of mind is brought to the table-you-by far-are not my physician-mental health advocate-or psychiatrist–if you're in the medical field-indicate such–i am therefore completely open to your assessment of character flaws–if not–you've made an improper assessment–i take lightly to any attempt to intimidate-to reinforce your view–all you have to do is state it–it's really an easy thing to do..
You do sound kind of opinionated here,and confused. You were in the military why ?the mideast is not a war for the American people,it is a war for oil and business profits.Dont you tell us that you went there for us when 99% of Americans dont even believe in the mideast or a cure for their wars.
I do not believe that the SEALs ever found or killed UBL. He was killed years ago in bomb strikes but we needed a "hero" story like Pat Tillman. We need to get the basic, low-end Marines in there to do the trick. They're not smart or good but they'll take care of things....and then pee on the dead bodies. Who's with me???
could be georgia–possibility exists-he;s alive -and driving a cab in chicago..
Maybe you're right marine, I think he might have given me a lift one evening...I guess I should have considered leaving a bigger tip.
the world is flat also
mike friedman
freedom of the press applies to the milatary as well
Spoken like a true Chicken Hawk. No it does not.
no it does not.
and it could be called Treason.
interesting comments-just logged in yesterday–as to discussing his writing of the book-as to the commander-in-chief–as to sensitive info being divulged–my perception-and like everyone who has commented-their perception–leadership–if it lacks at the bottom–it started at the top–giving an order is giving an order-implementation is the result-obma did not implement-he simply gave an order- as to what is owed to a commander in chief–i owe nothing to a commander in chief-once i am out-period-my six year obligation ended in 1972-sensitive info being divulged?-done everyday by all aspects of the cia-dia-dept of defense–and the white house-and the president–they warrant-apparently-no retribution-they lead–or do they?-as to the comments on color–and politics–i am neither democrat-republican-tea party-or else-i cast my vote on character-and leadership results-and in rvn-69-70-i had a position of leadership-when wrong-it happens-i accepted the error-leadership has never been-it was "his" fault-if you can't correct it-obtain someone who can–delegating authority is what it's about-this country appears to love delegating authority-problem–when those you-and im speaking as to leadership-when those you delegate-fail-you replace–if not-your lack of leadership does not obtain the dersired result-those below that standard that standard-are not leaders–rationalization is great-that's why there's politicians–cia been screwing up–no replacement-fbi been screwing up-no replacement-nor-from the top-no acknowledgement–wake up–or make a career and stay in–my concern is simple-we love our veterans??–well-who has been leading thw way for their needs now they're out-900,000 claims siting on desks–commander-in-chief?-va leader?-and this has been ongoing-party affililiation-irrelevant–could care less about the seal compromised or not–it's being done now-that-is dishonoring the military also–and it has nothing to do with any claim i have–just my perception–leadership–have a good day-unless you have other plans..
That is one loooooooong sentence.
I'm sorry that you never received an education.
If they went there with orders to simply destroy the largest library of information, they are and were taught to be simply stupid........ Sidewalk Justice is easy, to win the War and not just one little skirmish for publicity is mature planning with integrity........ Our Country has again shown the ridiculousness of its training, similar to the Water-boarding situation......And then attempting to use the media to inflate and approve their incomplete training......... Why do you think their is no transparency at the CIA or Blackwater........,
Xira Arien
I'd say it's just a symptom of our celebrity obsessed culture.
There's no place for humbleness in Amerika anymore.
I humbly beg to differ with you and humbly submit that you Sir are a buffoon.
I have no problem with this. He wrote the truth. It had to be done. Anything still 'classified' is probably not going to matter – like those embassy cables.
Absolutely correct! It defintely had to be done, cause everyone knows that Brian Smith need to know all the details of a raid on Bin Laden! It must be busy for you when all the US Govt agencies brief you on all their missions. It must really take valuable video game time away from you.
dopydem
Delta's are written about (mostly hear say) but you NEVER see a Delta or most Special Ops shooting their mouth off in a book. There is a saying in SpecOps, You don't have to wonder who is the SEAL in the room, he will tell you over and over.
If delta and special ops are so good, why weren't they chosen for the UBL raid?
Airborne Hawkeye
Probably because JSOC is commanded by a SEAL, a lot of times it comes down to which branch has the command, or it could have been they were the available asset. SOF Det-D, SF direct action teams, SEALS, all have the capability to perform these missions.
You don't want to waste them or SAD/SAG operatives on taking out someone who had been pretty much neutralized. Killing Bin Laden was more symbolic than useful.
Richard Larson
I own, and have read most of the SEAL authored books extant. Given that, I was aware that bin Laden had been killed, and had seen the Official video of the action, I was shocked at the great number of significant similarities in what I had seen, and what I had read in Tom Clancy's "Locked On"! My initial reaction was, "How did he get that kind of detail? Next was, "Did he have an inside person who gave him first shot on details?" I was confident that Clancy wasn't spolling any beans. He has too much at risk to do that, and he knows better. Later there was a spate of "I was there" type books apparently written by newly retired SEALS and possibly Active Duty personnel. On my opinion, these guys were out of line. It was apparent to me that some books had been vetted because you could see the redactions. They were in such a hurry to publish that they didn't even bother to rewrite. Others were never vetted at all. I personally know a couple former SEALS. Even though they have been retired for 20 years, or more, they will not even discuss unidentified ops. For me, there is nothing to it. If you are a SEAL, Delta Force, Force Recon, or Army Rangers, you just do not talk, suppose, or write. There are former SEALS who have written, and done very well by it, but they never stepped over the line. In that group you will find Marcinko, Chalker, Couch, and a couple others.
You're trying very hard to appear smart in your post but really you are a cross dresser.
No video or pics, it never happened. My President is a liar and thinks US citizens can be held with no charges and infinite duration. 61 Senators think that is just swell. We have a dictator in office right here. Are you taking the shot? Or, maybe you only "protect us" from the third world nobodies that state proudly, as a goal, ruining the US economy.
Mission accomplished. Not us. Them. Crying about a fictional book should be a military priority with our country on the brink of civil war. I'll be in my bunker watching the wheels fall off in HD. November aught to be interesting. Maybe more so than 9/11.
You're really far out there. Maybe you should seek help.
retired2001
You likely should be expecting a visit from CIA or Secret Service. Is this a direct or indirect threat. Unfortunately since all this terrorism began (preceding 9-1-1) the military has sabotaged Democrats in office. Little following of protocol as far as chain of command is concerned. Yes, loose lips sink ships and too many of you are unprofessional and have no ethics. My husband participated in a highly classified operation back in the 1950s during atomic testing. There were sworn to a vow of silence, the penalty for violation was treason, which is death. That didn't even involve such things as killing public enemy #1 and then this individual has released way too much information within less than 2 years after it occurred. It's all about who gets their first to make the dollars – GREED! That's what too many Republicans stand for these days. Finally the operation my husband was involved in was mostly declassified but they were exposed to life-threatening radiation and were sworn to not even tell medical professionals who might treat their ailments and many of them died from their exposure. I have no respect for the newer generation who think they are the only ones who count and they have "made it all by themselves", no help from those who have gone before. I hope the government strips him of all the money and I sincerely hope that his fellow SEALS and/or their families do not find their lives at risk by foreign terrorists who wish to avenge Bin Laden's death. This is immaturity at its highest. He may be retired, but that does not releave him from his vows of silence/secrecy, etc. It is people like this "hero?" who put others' lives at risk for their own personal recognition.
P.S. We did not learn that the mission had been mostly declassified until 2010 (54 years after event), although the declassification took place in the 1990s, but no particiipants were notified and many more died before it was learned they could talk to their doctors about their exposures.
It's fairly obvious from your remarks here that you like to accuse anyone who disagrees with you of being a terrorist.
Are you off your meds?
Hwy9
As a vet, I'm steamed about this guy and his lack of professionalism. He makes me sick. Everybody enlists knowing the job, knnowing the pay grade, and knowing what's expected of them. It doesn't matter who's the Commander in Chief – you can hate him, the old man, and every drill sargeant in boot camp, but you do the freaking job because THAT'S what you signed up for – no more, no less. You get picked to be a seal – good on ya, by the way, because few are chosen – but do the job and keep your yap shut. This guy's a traitor, and should be treated as such.
blueeyes
A better term would be the guy is a murderer.
Thomas Haymore
Big man, speaking from anonymity, eh? I challenge you to go to any town hall meeting and say that. Hey, blueeyes, guess what? The vast majority of the world disagrees with you. The work of our special forces is important and repected. The only people I know that make comments like yours are sympathizers and apologists for terrorists. Guess what most people think of your type.
Thomas Haymore i got news for you, it is evident that you don't read post on the internet, you're wrong the majority of the world don't support your actions. Go ahead and google it.
Great argument blueeyes! Strong support to your claim by citing the internet! Everyone knows that if you find it on the net it is FACT.
It is interesting that besides the Roger Dalton book and one other, you never hear nor see anything from the Delta Force Operators about their exploits. I wonder why that is?
Really? Ever heard of the book "Blackhawk Down" or "Killing Pablo"?
Both of those accounts are told from the ranger point of view, so cops and delta and ftg never publish books about what they do
Mike, sorry, the authors name is Dalton Fury – not his real name – He wrote Kill Bin Laden – the story about Tora Bora. He has written some other novels. As far as I am aware, he is the only ex-DF operator who has written anything, and from what I've gathered he was person-no-Grata around his ex-compatriots
Wheeeeee!!!!
They have been others written also. With in the dark Ops side the SEALs used to smirk about the fact that they hadn't had anyone write or speak out...ooopsss....not so much any more.
Crazy glory hungry squids!!!! Thank goodness we have Delta, our Special Forces teams, and the Ranger Regiment.....Quiet professionals always....!!
girlvet
As a veteran, I am digusted with this book. It makes all veterans look bad. Obviously this guy values money and publicity for himself over loyalty. He is shameful
yes...every single vet now looks bad because of this book....i am going down to picket the local VFW tomorrow.
Don't worry girlvet. Nobody will think less of you, there is no connection between spec ops and important missions and whatever joke missions they ask girls to do.
I'm guessing cooking and cleaning the barracks before the fighters get home...
Looking at the picture i noticed all of them have blue eyes with the exception of 2, seems like blue eyes people sure love killing people. No wonder the highest level of blue eyes and green eyes are behind bars and filling almost 90% of prisons for murder and other atrocities.
All you peoples with out blue eyes run for your lives!!!!!!
Zaperdon
You are so wrong and sound so immature.
Praise Odin
Descendants of Viking warriors. The blue eyes are due to these fighting men's ancestry of northern Europe.
infonomics
You missed the lecture on David Hume, didn't you ? BTW, all the guys are right-handed too, which obviously means that left-hand seals are tall.
No i didn't, David Hume was a philosopher and an atheist in which led him to speculations only, Your argument was weak.
Almost 50% are black or hispanic. 35% are white(which would include some brown eyes too). It doesnt matter. There are good and bad from all countries , color and cultures. And all of them went after him for murdering thousands of people, and so? I would much rather see them target the offenders than take a chance that you could involve innocent people.I guess you just told on yourself whom you support.
Maryam, i support no one, but i also don't believe in destroying a whole town just to get one house down, the same goes for killing millions of innocent people just get a handful of them. I don't support any form of violence. there are other ways to solve a problem.
Blueeyes is so open minded that he stands for nothing but sits to pee with the best of them..Wheeeeeeeeee!!
AFO-WolfPack
Sometimes i wonder........
Clearly, the problem is the Commander-in-Chief. Obama exposed the Seals! He didn't understand the cod. He doesn't understand much of anything. This fiasco is all on Obama and his leaks!
TXRed
President Obama is at fault for some ex Navy SEAL spewing what he knows to everyone? I think not. President Obama did not expose anyone. Yes, leaks happened, but nowhere is it said that it was President Obama. Or have you been watching Faux News too much? Our military is supposed to keep quiet about special operations, they are trained that speaking about their operations is a violation of the same "code" you speak of. Yet you seem to think it's ok for this retired Navy SEAL to speak out? Rubbish. President Obama gave the command...which is only right since he is Commander-in-Chief, he also praised the Navy SEAL Team 6 for following through with their mission. This ex SEAL needs to go back and reexamine what his oath means, because apparently, it's not worth anything.
Faux news...hahahaha....that is awesome!!...oh gosh...faux news...you know they are all racist also....and Nazis!!!!
Bissonnette says the White House put out lies. Lies are NOT leaks.
docdeb
Dope. He gave them vredit same as Bush did after successes in Iraq. This book is a GOP tool job.
Why would anyone be surprised that someone is taking advantage of their past experiences to earn income? Former Former Admirals and Generals all work for large corporations earning large incomes. Former Presidents travel the world earning fabulous incomes trading off of their past relationships. The REAL issue here is that someone has embarrassed the current administration. Accordingly the current administration has put pressure on the current military leadership who in turn is hand wringing and moaning. There are many, many examples of former Special Operations folks writing and talking about their experiences in order to earn fame and fortune.
Do you recall hearing, "loose lips sink ships"? Where's your OPSEC? You took the oath to honor, defend and protect. Now get with the program and honor what you learned, not to advertise what you do. Shut up or get out!
He did get out. And then wrote a book.
Give them all a bomb last one standing WINS!
I am disappointed and horrified that our elite forces is seeking celebrity over national security. No way no how should that book have been published. The SEAL should be shamed. They should not be talking about it and our government should not be supporting it.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A District of Columbia police officer who worked as a motorcycle escort for the White House and other officials has been moved to administrative duty after he allegedly made threatening comments about Michelle Obama, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
The officer was overheard making the comments Wednesday as several officers from the Special Operations Division discussed threats against the Obamas, the Post said, citing unidentified police officials who were not authorized to discuss details of the case. The officer allegedly said he would shoot the first lady and then used his phone to retrieve a picture of the firearm he said he would use, according to the report in the newspaper’s online edition.
Asked about the report, D.C. police spokeswoman Gwendolyn Crump said: “We received an allegation that inappropriate comments were made. We are currently investigating the nature of those comments.”
Secret Service spokesman Edwin Donovan told The Associated Press the agency was aware of the report and would “take appropriate follow-up steps.”
Typically in the case of a threat against a member of the first family, the Secret Service interviews participants and witnesses and then makes an assessment on how to proceed.
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The rifle is a gun with a stock to brace against the shoulder and a barrel with twisting grooves. The grooves are called rifling and make bullets spin as they fly through the air.[1] Rifles are made to shoot many different sizes of bullets using different amounts of gunpowder. Rifles are usually made to be able to hit targets at long ranges. Modern rifles are made for many different purposes. Some are made for hunting animals. Some are made for soldiers to use in war. Others are made for police to have in case they need them. Some rifles are made for target shooting.
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Rifles can work in different ways. Some rifles have what is called a bolt action. A small handle is used to move a part of the rifle called a "bolt". By moving the bolt backward, then forward, allows the shooter put a bullet in the chamber ready for firing. It also ejects any spent shells still in the chamber from any previously fired rounds. The rifle in the picture above is a bolt action. Some rifles are semi-automatics, where a bullet is loaded (automatically) and fired each time the trigger is pulled.[2] Some are fully automatic, which work like semi-automatics but allow the shooter to fire more than one bullet at a time by holding down the trigger.[2] The automatic rifle stops firing when the trigger is released or it runs out of ammunition.[2]
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All You Need To Know about the ABO Blood Groups (Types)
01 ABO Blood Type
02. Immunogenetics of the Histo-blood group ABO System
03. Discovery of ABO Blood Group System
04. A and B Antigens
05. A and B transferases
06. A transferase cDNA cloning
07. Northern Hybridization Results
08. A/B/O Allelic cDNAs
09. Deduced Amino Acid Sequences of A/B/O Alleles
10. Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (A/B Allele vs. O Allele)
11. RFLP (A/O Alleles vs. B Allele)
12. ABO Genotyping of Blood Specimens
13. ABO Alleles (A and B Alleles)
14. ABO Alleles (O Alleles)
15. ABO Alleles (A and B Subgroup Alleles)
16. ABO Alleles (cis-AB & B(A) Alleles)
17. ABO Alleles 2008
18. ABO Alleles (BGAGMD)
19. ABO Allele Mutations
20. Transfection Analysis
21. Transfection Results (A/B transferase)
22. Transfection Results (A2 and A3 Alleles)
23. Transfection Results (O Alleles)
24. Transfection Results (A-B Transferase Chimeras --AA)
25. Transfection Results (A-B Transferase Chimeras --BB)
26. Transfection Results (A-B Transferase Chimeras --AB)
27. Transfection Results (A-B Transferase Chimeras --BA)
28. Transfection Results (A transferase Codon 268)
29. Nucleotide-Sugar Specificity (A transferase Codons 266-268)
30. Transfection Results (B transferase Codon 268)
31. Nucleotide-Sugar Specificity (B Transferase Codons 266-268)
32. Three-Dimensional Structure of A Transferase
33.Homologous Sequences in Other Species
34. Primate ABO Gene Sequence Comparison
35. Evolution of ABO Genes in Primates
36. Evolution of ABO Genes (2008)
37. Alpha 1-3 Gal(NAc) Transferase Family
38. Evolutionary Tree of ABO and Related Genes (2001)
39. Partial Amino Acid Sequence Comparison (2001)
42. Partial Amino Acid Sequence Comparison (GGTA1 Genes)
43. Partial Amino Acid Sequence Comparison (A3GALT2 Genes)
44. Partial Amino Acid Sequence Comparison (GBGT1 Genes)
45. Partial Amino Acid Sequence Comparison (ABO Genes)
46. Partial Amino Acid Sequence Comparison (GLT6D1 Genes)
47. Glycosyltransferase Gene Family
48. Glycosyltransferase Gene Expression in Human Tissues
49. Glycosyltransferase Gene Expression Analyzed by Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm
Appendix 01.Discovery of the ABO blood group system
Appendix 02. Four major groups
Appendix 03. Genetic basis of ABO blood grouping
Appendix 04. ABH(O) substances
Appendix 05. Immuno-determinant structures of ABH(O) antigens
Appendix 06. The immuno-dominant sugars of the A and B antigens are GalNAc (N-acetyl-D-galactosamine) and galactose, respectively.
Appendix 07. The Biosynthetic pathways of the A and B antigens
Appendix 08. Linkage analysis of the ABO genes
Appendix 09. ABO blood groups and A and B transferase activity
Appendix 10. History of the purification attempt of A transferase
Appendix 11. A and B subgroups
Appendix 12. A1 and A2 subgroups
Appendix 13. A3, Ax, and B3 weak subgroups
Appendix 14. Discovery of cis-AB
Appendix 15. Two examples of cis-AB inheritance
Appendix 16. Discovery of B(A) phenotype
Appendix 17. Mapping of the ABO gene using the radiation hybrid panel
Appendix 18. ABH and related antigens
Appendix 19. The genomic structure of the human ABO gene
Appendix 20. Comparison of amino acid sequences of the ABO and related genes
Appendix 21. Comparison of gene organization between human and mouse ABO genes
Appendix 22. Polymorphism in the ABO gene that was observed among different species and subspecies of mice
Appendix 23. The specificity of the murine enzyme
Appendix 24. Porcine ABO gene
Appendix 25. A variety of methods for the ABO genotyping
Appendix 26. ABO Polymorphism & Infectious Disease Susceptibility
Appendix 27. ABO Polymorphism & Infectious Disease Susceptibility-2
Appendix 28. ABO Polymorphism & Cancer Susceptibility
Appendix 29. ABH Antigen Expression & Cancer
Appendix 30. ABO & Pancreatic Cancer
Appendix 31. ABO & Diet
Appendix 32. ABO Blood Type Diets
Appendix 33. ABH Antigens in Neurobiology
Appendix 34. ABO & Personality
ABH Antigen Expression & Cancer
In addition to the differential susceptibilities depending on the ABO phenotype, altered expression of ABH antigens in cancer has also been reported. Loss of A/B antigens was first reported in 1950s in human gastric carcinoma, and was subsequently demonstrated to occur in the majority of squamous and transitional cell carcinomas. Tumor cells with decreased expression of these antigens were shown to have a higher metastatic tendency. Life expectancy of patients with blood group A or AB who had primary non-small-cell lung carcinomas negative for A antigen was shown to be significantly shorter when compared to patients with A antigen-positive tumors.
Loss of A/B antigens has also been reported in prostate cancer, regardless of the histological grade or blood type. Vowden et al. used monoclonal antibodies directed towards A, B, H and Lewis y (Ley: Fuc α1->2 Gal β1->4 (Fuc α1->3) GlcNAc β1->) antigens and observed a loss of A/B antigen expression in all prostate tumors tested. They also identified type 2 (core structures are Gal β1->3 GlcNAc β1-> and Gal β1->4 GlcNAc β1-> for type 1 and type 2, respectively) H and Ley antigens in most tumors and proposed a link between type 2 structures and malignant transformation. Other reports confirmed the augmentation of type 2 H expression in poorly differentiated prostate adenocarcinomas, a loss of A, B, Lewis a (Lea: Gal β1->3 (Fuc α1->4) GlcNAc β1->) and Lewis b (Leb: Fuc α1->2 Gal β1->3 (Fuc α1->4) GlcNAc β1->) expression in all grades of adenocarcinomas, and strong expression of Ley in adenocarcinomas. In addition to Ley, sialyl Lex (sLex: NeuAc α2->3 Gal β1->4 (Fuc α1->3) GlcNAc β1->) was also found to be highly expressed in malignant prostate tissue although it is completely absent or minimally expressed in benign secretory epithelial cells. The appearance of Thomsen-Friedenreich antigen (T antigen: Gal β1->3 GalNAc α1->Ser/Thr) has also been reported in a majority of prostate carcinomas.
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After last week’s incredibly short week due to pre-emptions, it was good to have GH back. Between the twin switch, Oscar’s illness, and the outcome of baby Wiley’s case, there was a lot going on in Port Charles.
The twin switch
Many were sure the Kevin and Ryan switch had already taken place, but it hadn’t, until this past week when Ryan got the upper hand on Kevin. The scenes between them, leaving the viewers guessing who was who for a good portion of last Tuesday’s episode, were amazing. We don’t know how Kevin learned his brother was alive, or where he was all this time. I’m sure that explanation will come. Many readers have commented in our General Hospital recaps that they don’t see the point of revisiting this storyline. If it makes for good drama and uses Felicia and Mac more than just having them show up every 6 months to be Maxie’s parents, then I’m excited for it. Laura’s return obviously will factor into it as well. And let’s be honest, the cast of GH is pretty big, maybe Ryan can trim it down a bit.
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The swap stays a secret for now
Brad lucked out when the birth mother decided to withdrawal her decision to take her child back, begging the question what did Julian do to convince her to make such a decision? I hope he did not do something that will make matters worse, but this is Julian, so he likely did. It’s beginning to look like the identity of the birth mother is going to be irrelevant, which would be surprising because usually on a soap everyone is involved in everyone else’s drama and secrets. Now it seems we sit and wait for the inevitable. Michael will be mysteriously drawn to Wiley, Mike will continue to make comments that he looks just like Carly, and eventually the baby will get sick and need a transplant of some kind. That we can predict how this is going to play out, to some extent, is why I dislike baby switch storylines. They are overused on soaps along with the old “let’s change the DNA test” storylines.
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Life without Parker
I discussed in last week’s Deconstructing GH, LGBTQ+ representations on the soap, and my dislike of Parker and Kristina’s romance, though it’s hard to call it that given the storyline was more about Kristina’s coming out and Parker just factored into it for a handful of episodes. Now she’s made a break from Parker and is starting her life over in Port Charles, again. Hopefully, we will see things get better for her, even a new romance, and she won’t just become another Brad and Lucas, who until recently have just appeared here and there for the sake of it. With Valerie back in the picture, and Kristina working at Charlie’s, things are looking up for Kristina. Some viewers are already shipping Val and Kristina, though having a second established character who so far has only dated men come out is probably too much to swallow.
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Oscar’s sudden illness
Oscar’s life has been pretty amazing lately, up until he fainted, wound up in the hospital, and Kim admitted to Liz and Drew he is dying from an inoperable brain tumor she’s been keeping a secret. How does a kid Oscar’s age not question being taken to doctors’ appointments, having tests run on him, and seeing specialists? Kim claimed he just thinks she’s being overprotective, but in this day and age has he not turned to the internet to google these doctors and tests? One viewer suggested on social media that he’s not sick and Kim has Munchausen By Proxy, which would be an interesting twist, though with Terry apparently playing into the story it seems unlikely. The whole plot just reeks of the writers’ attempt to throw Tamara Braun an actual storyline, and maybe one to bring Kim and Drew closer. Theoretically, it could do the same for Drew and Sam, though I could also see them turning this into a “Jason is the only one who can save Oscar” story. How about we just get on with Drew getting his memories back, which obviously Kim would factor into. I’d rather be watching that storyline.
Same here. Tests for brain tumors must be very involved.
— Anne Marie Caristi (@AMCaristi) September 6, 2018
He don't have cancer. His mom has Munchausen-by-proxy.
— NEACOW???? (@neacow) September 5, 2018
Madeline’s death
I’m a little shocked that the show killed off Madeline, because she was such a fun and campy character, brilliantly played by Donna Mills. Obrecht’s appearance at her pretty much non-existent funeral service was a nice surprise, as was her pointing out that Madeline was the portrait of health and for her to die by heart attack was unusual. Either someone very powerful has Nina’s child and doesn’t want to be found, or perhaps Madeline’s death was faked? This is a soap, so everyone is fair game to be brought back from the dead. I hope we see Madeline again. At least Nina knows there is a possibility her child is alive, thanks to Madeline’s final gift. The Annie locket clue that her mom left her was a nice throwback to a beloved story, and also adds a little fun twist to the mystery. Now Curtis has to find a kid and a locket, and hopefully, there will be no Miss Hannigans to get in the way.
These are just my opinions on the soap. Please leave yours in the comments.
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Salvage Team Recovers Remains of US Marines Killed in Routine Refueling Op
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Remains believed to belong to Marines killed in an aviation collision off the coast of Japan last year have been recovered, following the conclusion of an underwater salvage mission.
On Monday, officials from the US Marines’ Camp Courtney base in Okinawa, Japan, announced the results of their salvage efforts to recover the bodies of the six Marines presumed dead following the mid-air collision between a KC-130 Hercules and F/A-18 Hornet on December 6, 2018, over the Philippine Sea.
“Human remains were recovered during the salvage operation. At this time, the number and identity of those recovered is not known. The remains will be transferred to Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, where formal identification will be made by competent medical authorities,” the Monday press release revealed.
It’s unknown when the remains were recovered during the mission, which ran from May 27 to June 7.
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The collision occurred during what was supposed to be a routine nighttime training and aerial refueling operation some 200 miles south of Muroto Cape on Shikoku Island. Immediately after the accident, the US 7th Fleet, along with Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force and Japanese Coast Guard, conducted a search and rescue operation.
A week after the incident, Sputnik reported the USMC had pronounced six of the seven Marines involved in crash as deceased. One Marine, an unnamed weapons operator aboard the F/A-18 Hornet, was confirmed the only survivor following the 35,000 square nautical mile search.
“We remain hopeful that the location of the flight data recording device coincides with the location of the aircraft,” the III Marine Expeditionary Force said in a December press release.
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Indonesia’s flooded capital disinfected to fend off disease
JAKARTA-Soldiers and health workers sprayed Indonesia’s capital with disinfectant on Sunday to fend off possible diseases spread by massive flooding that has killed 60 people and affected hundreds of thousands.
Monsoon rains and rising rivers submerged a dozen districts in the greater Jakarta area starting Wednesday after extreme torrential rains hit on New Year’s Eve, causing landslides in hilly areas on the outskirts of the capital that buried scores of people.
It’s the worst flooding in the area since 2007, when 80 people were killed over 10 days.
More than a thousand soldiers and health workers sprayed disinfectant in hard-hit areas on Sunday to anticipate possible diseases spread by flooding, such as dengue and leptospirosis, a potentially fatal disease spread by rat’s urine, said Ridwan Carman, who is in charge of emergency response and recovery for the Indonesian Red Cross.
About 11,000 health workers were deployed to provide medical care for people affected by the flooding, Health Minister TerawanAgusPutranto said in a statement. He said there had been no recorded cases of leptospirosis, tetanus or serious waterborne diseases.
In Lebak, a district in neighboring Banten province, where flash floods and mudslides swept away more than 1,700 houses and destroyed several villages, rescuers were still searching for a 7-year-old boy reportedly dragged away by flash flooding that killed at least nine people, said ZainalArifin, a local search and rescue agency chief.
He said mudslides that covered much of the area, blackouts and lack of telecommunications were hampering the search efforts.
Indonesian President JokoWidodo on Sunday failed to meet survivors in the devastated village of Sukajaya, where the highest number of deaths were reported, as his helicopter was unable to land due to bad weather, the presidential secretariat said in a statement. The village is in the hardest-hit district of Bogor, where 16 people were killed by flash floods and landslides.
Waters have receded in most parts of greater Jakarta, allowing many residents to return and clean up, but scores of tightly packed settlements close to rivers that often suffer from floods during the rainy season remained inundated or covered in mud and debris.
Tens of thousands of people remained crammed in damp shelters, mostly in western Jakarta and its satellite city of Bekasi.
Government data on Sunday showed that some 92,200 people were still unable to return home as the filthy waters submerged their houses up to 1.5 meters (5 feet) high.
In a cramped and damp emergency shelter at a sports center in south Jakarta, mothers breast fed their babies near piles of smelly wet garbage.
“My baby is not sleeping as the rain comes in, the wind comes in,” YuyunYuniarti said while holding her 7-month-old baby in a sling. “It is disgusting here, but we are stuck.”
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Yuniarti said food and medicine appeared to be sufficient, with most shelters visited in recent days by authorities and private organizations delivering regular supplies of food.
A temporary clinic was treating patients close to where Yuniarti was sleeping, including many suffering from respiratory illnesses. Save the Children, an international child rights organization, expressed its concern about the dire situation for children. At least six kids have died from the floods and tens of thousands have had to leave their homes in Jakarta.
“We call on all involved to make sure children are kept safe and have a roof over their heads, and food to eat,” Dino Satria, Save the Children’s humanitarian director in Indonesia, said in a statement.
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Texas Oil Spill Tracked With New High-tech Buoy
March 26, 2014 | 6:30 AM
By Dave Fehling
Near oil spill off Galveston Island, crew prepares to deploy rapid response tracking buoy built by Texas A&M
There are over 500 clean-up crew members working in boats and on beaches near where the oil spilled near Texas City on Galveston Bay.
But determining where some of the oil might still go is being done by experts who aren’t nearby. They’re over 2,000 miles away.
Doug Helton is in Seattle, Washington.
He’s in the war room the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration uses to help coordinate oil spill responses nationwide.
“The basic question is where’s the oil going to go, how’s it going to behave and what is it going to look like when it gets there, “ Helton told StateImpact Texas.
To predict that, NOAA uses data on the direction of the wind and currents and water temperatures.
“So far it’s tracking pretty closely to our predictions. We’re looking at the oil moving down along Galveston Island and towards the Freeport area,” said Helton.
The accuracy of those predictions relies on getting good data and how they get it in Texas could be making a big difference. The state uses what’s called TABS: Texas Automated Buoy System. TABS was developed by Texas A&M.
A&M's buoy hits the water and begins sending back data on wind, currents, and waves
“It gives you real time information, allows you to direct your resources to where you think the oil is actually going to go,” said John Walpert at Texas A&M’s Geochemical and Environmental Research Group.
Starting almost 20 years ago, the group developed and has now launched nine buoys that are anchored along the Texas coast. The buoys send out real-time readings on wind speed and direction, water currents and weather conditions and how high the waves are. Some of the buoys even have radar that looks at conditions all the way down to the sea floor. Getting that data in real-time is critical to predicting where an oil slick may head, especially if a front moves in that causes quick shifts in wind direction.
Over the years, the buoys have helped track over 50 spills, big and small. But the buoy system isn’t perfect. Since there are only nine, they could be many miles from the actual spill location. So a few years ago, A&M began work on buoys that could be quickly deployed right at or near a spill site.
“We have something called a TABS responder buoy which is a quick response buoy which we designed and built just for an emergency such as this,” said Walpert.
This Monday, for the first time in an actual spill, A&M deployed one of the new, quick response buoys 12 miles off the western edge of Galveston Island in the path where the oil was headed. And so far, researchers say the new buoy is working fine.
The Texas Automated Buoy System was one result of the federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990. It called for more to be done to mitigate spills. The Texas legislature responded by imposing a penny-a-barrel tax on oil that is shipped through Texas ports, a fee that now provides millions of dollars for spill prevention and monitoring programs.
Texas officials say the buoy system is the most advanced in the country and Doug Helton with the federal spill response office said it is impressive.
“This system is really strong.”
And it may reduce the damage this latest spill will do to the Texas coast.
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Bangladesh Cuts VAT on Thermal Coal Imports for Power Plants
Bangladesh’s National Board of Revenue has slashed the value added tax on coal import for power generation to 5% from the existing 15%. A statutory regulatory order of the revenue board in this connection said the reduced vat rate would remain effective until June 30, 2025. The order, signed by the NBR Chairman Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, said that to get the reduced vat rate at 5% the traders must submit a letter to customs declaring they would use the fuel only for power generation. Importers, who import coal for other purposes, have to pay regular 15% VAT
The government cut the VAT at a time when three coal-based power plants in public sector and four in private sector were under construction and expected to go for production soon. A huge amount of coal would be required for the power plants and that the VAT reduction would minimize electricity production costs, as the coal accounts for about 65% of the total cost. Currently, there are no other duties on coal import.
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Edenville Energy inks 2 Washed Thermal Coal Supply Contracts
AIM quoted Edenville Energy Plc announced the signing two contracts to supply up to 6,000 tonnes per month and up to 3,000 tonnes per month respectively of washed coal from the Rukwa Coal Project in Tanzania to industrial customers in Rwanda and Uganda.
The up to 6,000 tonnes per month contract has been signed with a Rwandan company, Tara Group Ltd, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Tanzanian company, Kitanyoe Group Company Ltd, which currently supplies coal, gypsum, limestone and calcite to industrial users. The end user for the Company’s coal is expected to be a major cement manufacturer in Rwanda.
The up to 3,000 tonnes per month contract has been signed with a Ugandan company, Springwood Capital Ltd, with the expected end user being a Kampala based steel works. As with the Tanzanian agent, Springwood supplies limestone, gypsum, calcite and iron ore to consumers in Uganda and Kenya.
In aggregate these two new contracts represent a supply of up to 9,000 tonnes per month, which accounts for approximately 75% of the current capacity of the recently refurbished wash plant. The new contracts will also complement the existing long-term contracts.
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I am pleased to announce that I have been invited to have a one man show at the National Center for Nature Photography located in Secor Metropark in Berkey Ohio just outside of Toledo. The show will run from March 8th through May 18th. The show will consist of nearly one hundred framed prints with dozens of new pieces printed especially for this show. The Center will be hosting a Meet the Artist Reception on Saturday March 15th from 12:00 to 7:00. During the reception I will be showing my new digtital presentation “A Wilderness Year” a visual journey through the four seasons with hundreds of images set to music. Showtimes for “A Wilderness Year” will be at 2:00 and 5:00pm on Satuday the 15th of March.
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Soul Friends
By: Leslie Parrott Vendor: Zondervan Publication Date: 2015 Format: Book Page Count: 224
Are you missing out on one of the most transforming means to a deeper and more vibrant faith? In Soul Friends, Dr. Leslie Parrott explores the intimate stages of a woman's spiritual journey while showing you how soul friendships can deepen and enlarge your faith.
God brings us soul-friends to help in our spiritual journey, sometimes in predictable places: small groups, friendships, and mentors. But they're sometimes found in places we don't expect--these "hidden guides" are people, past or present, whose role in our life may even be hidden from them, but nevertheless, have a deep impact on our growth and vitality. Whether it's a hidden guide, a member of a small group, or a friend we've had for years, these soul-friends all hold the potential to embody grace that enables us to take a next step in the unfolding journey of our faith.
Leslie reveals how every woman traverses four stages of spiritual growth--quest, calling, crisis, and communion - again and again. And whatever stage you find yourself traveling right now, you need soul friends to help you move forward
When we seize the initiative to connect, together we will form a part of the deep communion that is the sisterhood of the traveling saints, journeying together in our desire to know God, serve him, and love him more deeply. Through story, poem, and reflection, Leslie Parrott reminds each of us of the incredibly intimate, intricate, faith-forming work God does in us through the gift of the women he places in our lives.
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Daily and seasonal variations in the linear growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the ionosphere obtained with GAIA
Hiroyuki Shinagawa ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-4974-06511,
Hidekatsu Jin1,
Yasunobu Miyoshi2,
Hitoshi Fujiwara3,
Tatsuhiro Yokoyama1 &
Yuichi Otsuka4
The linear growth rates of the Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability in the ionosphere from 2011 to 2013 were obtained with a whole atmosphere-ionosphere coupled model GAIA (ground-to-topside model of atmosphere and ionosphere for aeronomy). The effects of thermospheric dynamics driven by atmospheric waves propagating from below on the R-T growth rate are included in the model by incorporating meteorological reanalysis data in the region below 30 km altitude. The daily maximum R-T growth rates for these periods are compared with the observed occurrence days of the equatorial plasma bubble (EPB) determined by the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) and Global Positioning System (GPS) in West Sumatra, Indonesia. We found that a high R-T growth rate tends to correspond to the actual EPB occurrence, suggesting the possibility of predicting EPB occurrences with numerical models.
In recent years, the prediction of EPBs has been one of the most important issues in space weather forecasting because EPBs could adversely affect communication and navigation systems (e.g., Steenburgh et al. 2008; Sreeja 2016). Previous observational and theoretical studies have indicated that EPBs can be generated through the Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability in the ionosphere (e.g., Scannapieco and Ossakow 1976; Woodman and LaHoz 1976; Ott 1978; Ossakow et al. 1979; Zalesak et al. 1982; Huba and Joyce 2007; Aveiro and Hysell 2010; Yokoyama et al. 2014, 2015). The flux tube integrated formulation of the equatorial ionosphere was given in several studies (e.g., Haerendel et al. 1992; Sultan 1996; Basu 2002). Among those studies, the formula of Sultan (1996) has been generally used to estimate the R-T growth rate. Recently, the R-T growth rate has been derived by Carter et al. (2014a, b) from the output data of the Thermosphere Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model (TIEGCM) (Richmond et al. 1992). They demonstrated that the R-T growth rate of EPBs is significantly controlled by geomagnetic activity. Carter et al. (2014a) also showed that the day-to-day quiet-time EPB occurrence observed in the Southeast Asian region agreed well with the result of TIEGCM for the 2000 March equinox period. Carter et al. (2014a, b) demonstrated that the geomagnetic activity (Kp index) is primarily responsible for the daily variability, and that even small changes in Kp have a significant effect on the occurrence of EPBs during the scintillation season.
Wu (2015) also used TIEGCM to show that the seasonal and longitudinal variations of the growth rate from the TIEGCM are consistent with the observed spread F variations, and that the growth rate is strongly dependent on the angle between the sunset terminator and the geomagnetic field line near the magnetic equator. Recently, Wu (2017) has investigated the solar effect on the R-T growth rate, and found that the correlation between F10.7 and the R-T growth rate is unclear in a short time scale of less than 10 days.
Previous modeling studies, however, have not self-consistently incorporated actual day-to-day meteorological variations in the lower atmosphere, which drive various atmospheric waves propagating up to the thermosphere. Since the GAIA model is a “seamlessly coupled” whole atmosphere-ionosphere model with meteorological reanalysis data incorporated in the lower atmosphere, it is possible to obtain the daily variations of the R-T growth rate of EPBs related to the lower atmospheric variations.
In this paper, we use the GAIA model to examine the variations in the R-T growth rate and compare the values with the occurrence data derived from the Equatorial Atmosphere Radar (EAR) located at 0.20°S in geographic latitude (10.6°S in geomagnetic latitude), 100.32°E in geographic longitude, and from GPS observations at the same site. We focus on the day-to-day and seasonal variations in the R-T growth rate, which are key factors for the prediction of the EPB occurrence. The purpose of this study is to investigate how upper atmospheric variations in GAIA are related to EPB occurrence by comparing the model-derived R-T growth rate and the actual occurrence of EPBs at a given site.
GAIA model
In the present analysis, we used the whole atmosphere-ionosphere coupled model GAIA to calculate the R-T growth rate in the ionosphere. GAIA consists of three models: an ionosphere model, a neutral atmosphere model, and an ionospheric electrodynamic model. In the neutral atmosphere model, hydrodynamic equations are solved by the spectral method. The spatial resolution is equivalent to a grid size of 2.8° longitude by 2.8° latitude in the horizontal direction, and 0.2 scale height in the vertical direction. The neutral atmosphere model covers the entire atmospheric region from the surface up to the top of the thermosphere, which is about 500 km altitude. The effects of all basic physical processes in the atmosphere such as surface topography, radiative processes, eddy and molecular diffusion processes, and moist convection are included in the model (Fujiwara and Miyoshi 2009, 2010; Miyoshi and Fujiwara 2003, 2006, 2008; Miyoshi et al. 2012, 2014). At altitudes below 30 km, the meteorological reanalysis data JRA-25 (Japanese 25-year Reanalysis) are incorporated into the simulation model by a nudging method (Jin et al. 2012). This procedure enables us to incorporate actual meteorological processes in the lower atmosphere as well as various atmospheric waves generated at lower altitudes. Another input to the model is the F10.7 index, which is taken from NOAA/NCEI.
In the ionospheric model, plasma fluid equations for several major ion species and electrons are solved using the finite difference scheme. The spatial grid intervals are of 2.5° longitude by 1° latitude horizontally. The vertical grid interval is 10 km below 600 km, and at altitudes higher than 600 km, the grid interval increases gradually up to 100 km at the upper boundary of 3000 km. In the ionospheric electrodynamics model, the global electrostatic potential driven by neutral winds is calculated assuming that geomagnetic field lines are equipotential and the current is closed within the ionosphere region (Jin et al. 2008, 2011, 2012). In the present analysis, the GAIA model incorporates a quiet magnetospheric condition with a constant cross polar cap potential, which is 30 kV. Therefore, the effect of a varying geomagnetic activity level is not included in the present study.
Calculation of R-T growth rate using GAIA
We adopted the formula of Sultan (1996), in which the flux tube integrated linear R-T growth rate γ is expressed as
$$ \gamma =\frac{\Sigma_P^F}{\Sigma_P^E+{\Sigma}_P^F}\left({V}_p-{U}_L^P-\frac{g_e}{\nu_{\mathrm{eff}}^F}\right){K}^F-{R}_T,\kern0.5em $$
where \( {\Sigma}_P^F \) and \( {\Sigma}_P^E \) are the flux tube integrated Pedersen conductivities in the F region and the E region, respectively, V p is the vertical component of plasma drift due to the zonal component of the electric field E at the magnetic equator, \( {U}_L^P \) is the neutral wind perpendicular to the magnetic field in the magnetic meridian plane weighted by the Pedersen conductivity, g e is the downward gravity acceleration, \( {\nu}_{\mathrm{eff}}^F \) is the flux tube integrated effective ion-neutral collision frequency weighted by the electron number density, KF is the altitude gradient of flux tube integrated electron content in the F region, and R T is the flux tube integrated recombination rate weighted by the electron number density.
Using Eq. (1), the R-T growth rate was calculated for the magnetic flux tubes above the EAR site, at every 10 km in altitude every 30 min for each day, and the highest R-T growth rate among all local times and altitudes at the site was adopted for the day, which usually occurs in the evening in the F region. As mentioned in the previous section, the effects of variations in geomagnetic activity are not included in the present analysis. Therefore, only the effects of atmospheric variations, F10.7 variations, seasonal variations, and atmospheric waves propagating from the lower atmosphere are included.
Observation data of EPBs
To compare the calculated R-T growth rate with the actual EPB occurrence, we used two types of observation data in our analysis: one is the field-aligned irregularity (FAI) data derived from EAR (Fukao et al. 2004; Otsuka et al. 2004), and the other is the S4 index data derived from GPS data (Otsuka et al. 2006; Ogawa et al. 2009). Since both FAI data and S4 index data are considered to be good indicators of EPBs, an occurrence data set was generated using the two types of data.
The EAR, located at Kototabang (0.20°S; 100.3°E), Indonesia, is a large monostatic radar operating at 47.0 MHz with a peak output power of 100 kW. By steering the radar beam in 16 directions perpendicular to the geomagnetic fields, 3-m scale FAIs are observed in a fan-shaped range azimuth sector (fan sector) map that covers 600 km in the zonal direction at an altitude of 450 km (Fukao et al. 2004) approximately every 2 min. Since July 2010, FAI measurements have been carried out routinely every night. Otsuka et al. (2004) have shown that FAI with a signal-to-noise ratio larger than 0 dB coincides well with plasma depletion observed in the 630-nm airglow image taken by an all-sky airglow imager installed at the EAR site. Typically, FAI regions have a zonal width of 100–200 km and propagate eastward at a velocity of 40–140 m/s (Fukao et al. 2006). Therefore, the FAIs are detected on a fixed beam for 10–80 min. In this study, FAI occurrence is defined as an event in which FAIs with signal-to-noise ratios larger than 0 dB continue for more than 10 min.
At the EAR site, three single-frequency GPS receivers have been operated since January 2003 (Otsuka et al. 2006; Ogawa et al. 2009) to measure amplitude scintillation. GPS scintillation at the equatorial region could be caused by plasma density irregularities within EPBs. The signal intensity of the GPS L1 frequency (1.57542 GHz) is measured at a rate of 20 Hz. The scintillation index S4, defined as the standard deviation of signal intensities divided by their mean, is obtained every minute. To avoid the multipath effects of GPS signals, the data with elevation angles less than 30° were excluded (Otsuka et al. 2006). We average S4 over 10 min and selected the highest S4 among all the 10-min S4 values obtained for different satellites simultaneously. To investigate the day-to-day variation of S4, the 10-min S4 values are averaged over a period from 1900 to 2400 LT. In this study, we define the day of EPB occurrence as the day when the daily S4 is larger than 0.3.
We compare the model-derived R-T growth rate with the observed EPB occurrence data for the years 2011–2013. This is because complete data of the EPB occurrence is available for both FAI and S4 index data for these 3 years. As will be explained later, the EPB occurrence days identified by the two observations do not agree with each other on some days especially in the June solstice periods. FAIs occurring in the June solstice period appear more frequently at post-midnight and is not accompanied by GPS scintillation (e.g., Otsuka et al. 2009, 2012; Nishioka et al. 2012). This is one of the reasons behind the disagreement between the two observations. The disagreement in equinox season appears to come from the differences in the accuracy and direction of the measurement. In this study, “the occurrence day” means the day when EPB is identified either by EAR or GPS. The occurrence days are compared with the model-derived R-T growth rates.
Longitudinal-seasonal variations in R-T growth rate
Figure 1 shows contour plots of daily maximum R-T growth rates for different longitudes and day of year for the years 2011–2013 in the unit of 10− 3 s− 1. Seasonal and longitudinal variations in the R-T growth rate are clearly seen for all these 3 years. The R-T growth rate peaks in the two equinox periods for all longitudes except in the central Pacific region, where the growth rate peaks are unclear. Although the overall pattern is roughly consistent with the EPB occurrence rates derived from satellite observations (Watanabe and Oya 1986; Burke et al. 2004a, b; Gentile et al. 2006; Nishioka et al. 2008; Kil et al. 2009; Huang et al. 2014, Huang and Hairston 2015), there are some discrepancies between the R-T growth rate and the observed occurrence rate. One notable difference is that in the observed occurrence rates, there is a clear maximum in the Atlantic region (Burke et al. 2004a, b), while the maximum is not very clear in the R-T growth rate in GAIA. This is probably because GAIA employs a tilted dipole model, which significantly differs from the real magnetic field configuration in that region. In the central Pacific region, the peak R-T growth rate is less significant than in other regions, which is consistent with the observations (Burke et al. 2004a, b; Gentile et al. 2006; Nishioka et al. 2008).
Seasonal and longitudinal variations in R-T growth rate obtained with GAIA. Seasonal and longitudinal variations of the daily maximum value of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability growth rate at the equator are shown for the years a 2011, b 2012, and c 2013
Day-to-day variations in R-T growth rate and EPB occurrence
In addition to seasonal and longitudinal variations in the maximum R-T growth rate, Fig. 1 shows significant day-to-day variations throughout the year at all longitudes. Since in the present analysis we did not include variations in the polar energy inputs from the magnetosphere, day-to-day variations in the R-T growth rate are caused by day-to-day variations in neutral winds and densities and in ionospheric conductivities, which are associated with solar EUV/X-ray radiation (F10.7 index) and atmospheric waves propagating from the lower atmosphere.
In Fig. 2, day-to-day variations in the R-T growth rate at 100°E longitude are compared with the EPB occurrence observations at the EAR site in 2011–2013. The vertical axis is the R-T growth rate in the unit of 10− 3 s− 1, and the horizontal axis is the day of year (DOY). The red lines indicate the daily maximum R-T growth rates calculated with GAIA. The vertical bars indicate the days when a plasma bubble is detected by EAR (green bar) and by GPS (red bar).
Daily variations in R-T growth rate obtained with GAIA. The daily maximum values of the R-T growth rate (black line) are obtained with GAIA at 100°E for the years of a 2011, b 2012, and c 2013. Vertical bars indicate the days when EPBs are detected by EAR (red bar) and by GPS (green bar)
In all the 3 years, seasonal variations are clearly seen in both the daily R-T growth rate and EPB occurrence, which are maximum in the two equinoxes. For daily variations, there is a relatively good correlation between the observed occurrence days and the days with a large R-T growth rate, although there are some periods of disagreement.
In the year 2011 (Fig. 2a), few EPBs were detected until DOY 40. From DOY 1 to DOY 40, the R-T growth rate is relatively low. Between DOY 40 and DOY 120, EPBs appear very often and the R-T growth rate is also high. After DOY 120, the EPB occurrence suddenly becomes sporadic and detected only by EAR until DOY 230. The calculated R-T growth rate is generally low except for an occasional enhancement, which does not always agree with the observed occurrence days. After DOY 230, EPBs are frequently seen again until DOY 318, while the R-T growth rate is also high during this period. After DOY 318, EPB activity decreases rapidly, and the R-T growth rate also decreases with increases on some days, for which the agreement with the EPB occurrence is not good.
In the year 2012 (Fig. 2b), EPBs are observed occasionally on DOYs 15–32 unlike in the same period in 2011. The R-T growth rate increases from the beginning of the year and is relatively high during the same period. Between DOY 50 and DOY 140, EPBs occur frequently, and their occurrence days seem to correspond to the days with high R-T growth rates. During the months around the June solstice (DOYs 150–240), EPBs are seen relatively often. The R-T growth rate is also fairly high compared with that in the same period in 2011, but the agreement between the R-T growth rate and the EPB occurrence rate is not very good. After DOY 240, the EPB occurrence rate becomes high again, and the occurrence days tend to agree with the days with high R-T growth rates. After DOY 305, EPB is observed only once by EAR on DOY 324, on which the R-T growth rate is relatively high. Although the R-T growth rate is high on DOYs 317, 320, and 329, no EPB has been observed on those days.
In the year 2013 (Fig. 2c), EPB is detected only once before DOY 47, while the R-T growth rate becomes high between DOY 5 and DOY 15 and between DOY 33 and DOY 47, which is not consistent with the observations. As in 2011 and 2012, the observed occurrence rate of EPB is high in the equinox months. The R-T growth rate is also high during the periods, but the individual occurrence days are not in good agreement for this year. Around the two solstices, the agreement is also not as good as those in 2011 and 2012.
Overall, the R-T growth rate derived from GAIA simulation data exhibits clear seasonal and day-to-day variations. A high R-T growth rate tends to correspond to the observed occurrence days determined by EAR and GPS measurements during the two equinox periods, while in the two solstice periods, the agreement is worse, especially in 2013.
Relationship between EPB occurrence and R-T growth rate
In the previous section, we found that there appears to be a fairly good relationship between the EPB occurrence and the R-T growth rate. To show the relationship more quantitatively, histograms of the number of days of EPB occurrence and non-occurrence sorted by the R-T growth rate are plotted in Fig. 3. The R-T growth rates are split into bins with a width of 10− 4 s− 1. Red bars indicate the number of days of EPB occurrence, and blue bars indicate the number of days of non-occurrence. Figure 4 shows histograms revealing the relationship between the rate of days of EPB occurrence and the R-T growth rate. The result clearly shows that EPB tends to occur more frequently as the R-T growth rate increases, although the correlation is weaker in 2013 than in 2011 and 2012.
Histograms of the number of EPS occurrence and non-occurrence days for the R-T growth rate. The histograms indicate the relationship between the number of days of EPB occurrence and non-occurrence and the R-T growth rate in a 2011, b 2012, and c 2013. The values of the R-T growth rate are split into 10 bins with a width of 10− 4 s− 1. Red bars are the numbers of days when EPBs are observed, and blue bars are the numbers of days when EPBs are not observed
Histograms of the number of EPS occurrence/non-occurrence days for the R-T growth rate. The histograms indicate the relationship between the rate of days of EPB occurrence and the R-T growth rate in a 2011, b 2012, and c 2013
Processes controlling variations in R-T growth rate
Figure 2 indicates that the R-T growth rate varies significantly in various time scales. To study which processes control the variations in the total R-T growth rate, we examined each term in Eq. (1). Figure 5 shows the variations in the terms of the R-T growth rate at 100°E for the years (a) 2011, (b) 2012, and (c) 2013. The red line is the upward E × B drift term \( \left[{\Sigma}_P^F/\left({\Sigma}_P^E+{\Sigma}_P^F\right)\right]{V}_p{K}^F \); the blue line is the vertical neutral wind term \( -\left[{\Sigma}_P^F/\left({\Sigma}_P^E+{\Sigma}_P^F\right)\right]{U}_L^P{K}^F \); the green line is the gravity term \( -\left[{\Sigma}_P^F/\left({\Sigma}_P^E+{\Sigma}_P^F\right)\right]\left({g}_e/{\nu}_{eff}^F\right){K}^F \). The chemical recombination term R T is much smaller than other terms where the maximum R-T growth rate occurs, and therefore is not plotted in Fig. 5.
Daily variations of various terms in the R-T growth rate. Individual terms in Eq. (1) in the R-T growth rate (Fig. 1) are shown for the years a 2011, b 2012, and c 2013. Lines indicate (red) upward ExB drift term, (green) gravity term, and (blue) vertical neutral wind term
Figure 5 indicates that the E × B term (red line) primarily contributes to the R-T growth rate most of the time, as was pointed in previous studies (Carter et al. 2014a, b; Wu 2015, 2017). Since our present analysis includes low and fixed polar energy inputs, the electric field variations arise from neutral wind variations driven by atmospheric waves propagating from the lower atmosphere. Variations in the electric field are also caused by variations in electric conductivities and angles between magnetic field lines and the terminator line. The gravity term occasionally becomes large and makes a significant contribution.
The term of the vertical-meridional component of the neutral wind perpendicular to the magnetic field \( {U}_L^P \) (blue line) tends to become larger after the March equinox and during June solstice periods. Variations in thermospheric winds are closely associated with atmospheric waves propagating from the troposphere (Miyoshi et al. 2017), which have significant seasonal dependence. In general, the larger meridional component of the thermospheric wind contributes to the larger value of the term. However, the variation in the \( {U}_L^P \) term is extremely complicated because it is a flux tube integrated quantity of the vertical-meridional component of neutral winds perpendicular to the magnetic field. Furthermore, thermospheric winds usually vary significantly near the terminator. Since the behavior of the neutral wind term becomes occasionally important around the June solstice, reproducing thermospheric winds accurately is the key to the analysis using the R-T growth rate. The results show that all terms except the chemical recombination term are highly variable and have significant contributions to the R-T growth rate especially in the June solstice.
Figure 6 indicates the local time when the maximum R-T growth rate occurred at the EAR site. The maximum R-T growth rate occurs around 18–19 LT most of the days. In the June solstice, the maximum R-T growth rate tends to appear in later hours than in other seasons, as pointed out in previous studies (e.g., Otsuka et al. 2009; Ajith et al. 2016). This is because the prereversal enhancement (PRE) is weaker during the period. Figure 7 shows the eastward electric field variations at the EAR site during 21–30 March 2011 and 21–30 June 2011. The PRE is clearly seen in March around 12 UT (i.e., 18–19 LT at the EAR site), while it is much smaller in June.
Local time of the maximum R-T growth rate occurrence. Black circles indicate the local times when the maximum R-T growth rate occurred in a 2011, b 2012, and c 2013
Examples of the eastward electric field variations in GAIA. Day-to-day variations of the eastward electric field at the EAR site are shown a for 21–30 March, 2011 and b for 21–30 June 2011. The prereversal enhancement is clearly seen in March around 12 UT (i.e., 18–19 LT), while it is much smaller in June
Effects of geomagnetic activity on R-T growth rate
Carter et al. (2014a, b) showed that geomagnetic activity influences EPBs, and that EPB development tends to be suppressed as a result of geomagnetic activity. Since the present GAIA model does not include the effect of varying polar energy inputs, we examined the relationship between geomagnetic activity and EPB occurrence by comparing ΣKp and the plasma bubble occurrence at the EAR site for the years 2011–2013. Figure 8 shows histograms of the numbers of EPB occurrence days (red bars) and non-occurrence days (blue bars) sorted by ΣKp (daily total of Kp) in the years 2011–2013. Figure 9 shows histograms of ΣKp for the ratios of EPB occurrence days in the years 2011–2013. Values of ΣKp are split into bins with a width of 5.
Histograms of the number of EPB occurrence/non-occurrence days for ΣKp. The histograms indicate the relationship between ΣKp (daily total of the Kp) and the number of days of EPB occurrence (red bars) and non-occurrence (blue bars) in a 2011, b 2012, and c 2013
Histograms of the ratio of EPB occurrence for ΣKp. The histograms indicate the relationship between the EPB occurrence ratio and ΣKp in a 2011, b 2012, and c 2013
The result indicates that the EPB occurrence ratio tends to decrease as ΣKp increases, which is consistent with the result obtained by Carter et al. (2014b). However, the dependence of the occurrence ratio on ΣKp is not very clear for ΣKp larger than about 25, suggesting that strong geomagnetic activity occasionally induces EPB development (Basu et al. 2007; Tulasi Ram et al. 2008; Huang 2011). Since the present version of GAIA does not include varying polar inputs, the effects of geomagnetic activity are not included in our present study.
Effect of solar EUV/X-ray radiation on the R-T growth rate
Figure 10 shows the day-to-day variations in the R-T growth rate and F10.7 for the years 2011–2013. In 2011 (Fig. 4a), the R-T growth rate and F10.7 show similar seasonal variations in which they are maximum in the two equinoxes. This agreement appears to be coincidental because solar activity usually does not have seasonal variations as seen in 2012 and 2013. The agreement between the R-T growth rate and F10.7 is unclear on a short time scale (< 10 days). This is similar to the result given by Wu (2017) who used TIEGCM to obtain the R-T growth rate. Wu (2017) mentioned that the weak correlation between the R-T growth rate and F10.7 is due to the fact that the field-line integrated electron content gradient cancels out the positive correlation between the vertical ion drift and the F10.7 index. On the other hand, previous statistical analyses indicated that there are significant correlations between plasma bubble occurrences and F10.7 (Watanabe and Oya 1986; Huang et al. 2002; Nishioka et al. 2008), although the correlation depends on various parameters such as longitude, local time, and year. In our analysis, there appear to be some periods in which there are relatively good correlations between the R-T growth rate and F10.7, especially in the latter half of 2012. In 2012, variations of the 27-day period are seen in GRT and F10.7 between DOY 180 and DOY 310 (Fig. 10b). It seems that a very large F10.7 tends to increase the R-T growth rate.
Daily variations in R-T growth rate and the observed daily F10.7. The R-T growth rate in GAIA at 100°E and the observed daily F10.7 are shown for a 2011, b 2012, and c 2013. Black lines indicate the daily maximum values of the R-T growth rate and red lines indicate the daily values of F10.7
On disagreement between R-T growth rate and EPB occurrence
Although the R-T growth rate agrees with the EPB occurrence for some periods, significant discrepancies are present. There seem to be three factors that lead to the discrepancies: (1) measurement problems, (2) errors in GAIA model, and (3) applicability of the R-T growth rate for the EPB occurrence index.
In this study, we have used the FAI observed by the EAR and the GPS scintillation observed by a GPS receiver at the EAR site to detect the plasma bubble occurrence. As shown in Fig. 2, the FAI occurrence is not always consistent with the GPS scintillation occurrence. This discrepancy could be attributed mainly to the following two reasons. (1) Since EAR is located at the magnetic latitude of 10.4°S, plasma bubbles that do not reach the latitude of the EAR are not observed. FAIs are mostly observed with the EAR at altitudes higher than 250 km. The apex altitude of the field-of-view of the EAR at a 250-km altitude is 420 km (Dao et al. 2016). Consequently, no plasma bubbles that are confined at an apex altitude lower than 420 km are detected with the EAR. On the other hand, the GPS scintillation measurement covers an area within a zenith angle of less than 60°, i.e., an area within a radius of approximately 470 km, and thus the plasma bubbles that do not reach the field-of-view of the EAR can be observed with the GPS measurements. (2) The ionospheric pierce points of the ray path of GPS radio waves move either from SSW to NNE or from NNW to SSE at approximately 100 m/s. Plasma bubbles immediately after sunset move eastward at 100–150 m/s on average (e.g., Otsuka et al. 2006). Since the movements of both the ionospheric pierce points and plasma bubbles have an eastward component, it is possible that the pierce points cannot come across the plasma bubbles although multiple satellites are available simultaneously, implying that GPS measurements at a single site may miss the plasma bubble occurrence. Consequently, in this study, we have used both FAIs and GPS scintillations and defined the day of plasma bubble occurrence as the day when either the FAIs or GPS scintillations are detected.
As mentioned earlier, the present analysis does not include the effect of magnetic disturbances, which are thought to control the occurrence of EPBs. Carter et al. (2014a, b) showed that geomagnetic activity is one of the key parameters for the occurrence of EPBs. Thus, it is necessary to include this effect to further improve the reproducibility of EPB occurrence. In addition, the present GAIA model employs a tilted dipole magnetic field model, which seems to give some errors in the R-T growth rate. There is likely to be some uncertainties in reproducing thermospheric neutral winds, which are parameters essential to ionospheric dynamo processes.
Although the linear growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability appears to be a good index of the plasma bubble occurrence, a high R-T growth rate does not necessarily mean a fully developed EPB structure. Even if the R-T growth rate becomes high instantaneously, EPBs do not grow unless a high R-T growth rate continues for 1 or 2 h. It is also likely that an EPB is produced somewhere else and drifts into the observation site. As studied by Ajith et al. (2015), there are two types of EPBs: evolving-type EPBs and drifting-in EPBs, suggesting that EPBs can be observed even if the R-T growth rate is low.
Prediction of EPB occurrence
Our study as well as other previous studies (e.g., Carter et al. 2014a, b; Wu 2015, 2017) suggest that the R-T growth rate calculated with numerical models could be a good index for the prediction of EPBs. However, we have compared past EPB occurrence data and R-T growth rates calculated with GAIA and past meteorological reanalysis data. For the practical forecast of EPBs, it is necessary to predict ionosphere-thermosphere variations one or more days ahead. One possible way to make a prediction is to introduce meteorological forecast data instead of the meteorological reanalysis data in the lower atmosphere. The other way is to run GAIA by itself without the meteorological reanalysis data. Since GAIA can reproduce meteorological processes in the troposphere to some degree, it is expected that the model can be used to predict the atmosphere-ionosphere system without forecast data. Further investigation is necessary for the development of a forecast technique.
The daily maximum R-T growth rates were obtained from GAIA simulation data, and were compared with the EPB occurrence data obtained from two types of observations: FAIs of EAR and S4 index from the GPS receiver for the years 2011–2013. This is the first paper to quantify the effect of lower atmospheric forcing on the R-T growth rate in the ionosphere. The results show that a high R-T growth rate tends to correspond to the actual occurrence of EPB. Although the effect of varying magnetic activity is not included in the present analysis, the results of the present study indicate that lower atmospheric forcing is an important process in controlling the R-T growth rate, suggesting that the R-T growth rate is a useful index for the prediction of EPB occurrence.
DOY:
Day of year
Equatorial Atmosphere Radar
EPB:
Equatorial plasma bubble
EUV:
Extreme ultraviolet
FAI:
Field-aligned irregularity
GAIA:
Ground-to-topside model of Atmosphere and Ionosphere for Aeronomy
JRA-25:
Japanese 25-year Reanalysis
NCEI:
National Centers for Environmental Information
NOAA:
PRE:
Prereversal enhancement
R-T:
Rayleigh-Taylor
TIEGCM:
Thermosphere Ionosphere Electrodynamics General Circulation Model
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Simulations and data analyses in this work were performed using Hitachi SR16000/M1 and the NICT Science Cloud System, Japan. Numerical simulation in this study was also performed as a computational joint research program at the Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Japan. The meteorological reanalysis data was obtained from the cooperative research project of the JRA-25 long-term reanalysis by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) (http://www.jreap.org/indexe.html). The F10.7 index data was obtained from NOAA/NCEI. Kp index data was obtained from World Data Center for Geomagnetism, Kyoto.
This work is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP15H03733 and JP15H05815.
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8795, Japan
Hiroyuki Shinagawa
, Hidekatsu Jin
& Tatsuhiro Yokoyama
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
Yasunobu Miyoshi
Faculty of Science and Technology, Seikei University, Musashino, Tokyo, 180-8633, Japan
Hitoshi Fujiwara
Institute for Space-Earth Environmental Research, Nagoya University, Nagoya, 464-0814, Japan
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HS proposed the topic and analyzed the data of GAIA simulation. HS, HJ, YM, and HF developed the GAIA model. HJ and YM carried out simulation and created the simulation database. YO analyzed the observation data and created EPB occurrence data. TY gave information on the physics of EPB. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Shinagawa, H., Jin, H., Miyoshi, Y. et al. Daily and seasonal variations in the linear growth rate of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability in the ionosphere obtained with GAIA. Prog Earth Planet Sci 5, 16 (2018) doi:10.1186/s40645-018-0175-8
Accepted: 22 February 2018
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Regolith behavior under asteroid-level gravity conditions: low-velocity impact experiments
Julie Brisset ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-2627-335X1,
Joshua Colwell1,
Adrienne Dove1,
Sumayya Abukhalil1,
Christopher Cox1 &
Nadia Mohammed1
The dusty regolith covering the surfaces of asteroids and planetary satellites differs in size, shape, and composition from terrestrial soil particles and is subject to environmental conditions very different from those found on Earth. This regolith evolves in a low ambient pressure and low-gravity environment. Its response to low-velocity impacts, such as those that may accompany human and robotic exploration activities, may be completely different than what is encountered on Earth. Experimental studies of the response of planetary regolith in the relevant environmental conditions are thus necessary to facilitate future Solar System exploration activities.We combined the results and provided new data analysis elements for a series of impact experiments into simulated planetary regolith in low-gravity conditions using two experimental setups and a range of microgravity platforms. The Physics of Regolith Impacts in Microgravity Experiment (PRIME) flew on several parabolic aircraft flights, enabling the recording of impacts into granular materials at speeds of ∼ 4–230 cm/s. The COLLisions Into Dust Experiment (COLLIDE) is conceptually close to the PRIME setup. It flew on the Space Shuttle in 1998 and 2001 and more recently on the Blue Origin New Shepard rocket, recording impacts into simulated regolith at speeds between 1 and 120 cm/s.Results of these experimental campaigns found that there is a significant change in the regolith behavior with the gravity environment. In a 10 −2g environment (with g being the gravity acceleration at the surface of the Earth), only embedding of the impactor was observed and ejecta production was produced for most impacts at > 20 cm/s. Once at microgravity levels (<10−4g), the lowest impact energies also produced impactor rebound. In these microgravity conditions, ejecta started to be produced for impacts at > 10 cm/s. The measured ejecta speeds were somewhat lower than the ones measured at reduced-gravity levels, but the ejected masses were higher. In general, the mean ejecta velocity shows a power-law dependence on the impact energy with an index of ∼ 0.5. When projectile rebound occurred, we observed that its coefficients of restitution on the bed of regolith simulant decrease by a factor of 10 with increasing impact speeds from ∼ 5 up to 100 cm/s. We could also observe an increased cohesion between the JSC-1 grains compared to the quartz sand targets.
Small airless bodies of the Solar System are known to be covered in a layer of regolith, composed of grains of varying sizes. Created by the bombardment of micrometeoroids or thermal disintegration, micron-sized and larger dust particles collect on the surfaces of asteroids, comets, and moons (Housen et al. 1979; Housen and Wilkening 1982). Any space mission probing or landing on the surfaces of these small bodies has to interact with this regolith, at the very low surface gravity levels induced by the body’s small mass. The first soft landings on such small bodies were performed by the NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft on the asteroid Eros (Veverka et al. 2001), Hayabusa on Itokawa (Kawaguchi et al. 2008), and Philae on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (Biele et al. 2015). In the latter instances, the landing resulted in an unexpected response of the surface to the low-velocity impact of the lander, in particular the remarkable recurrent bouncing of Philae on the comet’s surface after a first touchdown at around 1 m/s.
Currently, two missions are en route to asteroids: Hayabusa-2 carrying the MASCOT lander (Tsuda et al. 2013; Jaumann et al. 2016), due to arrive at Ryugu in 2018, and the OSIRIS-REx mission arriving at Bennu in 2018, planning to sample its surface using a Touch-And-Go mechanism (Lauretta et al. 2017). In addition, the increased interest in In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) and mining prospects will soon lead to more reconnaissance and pathfinder missions to small bodies of the Solar System. Understanding interactions with surface regolith at very low gravity levels has therefore become an imperative. Impacts at a few meters per second down to a few centimeters per second into regolith layers are of particular interest to these current and future missions.
Motivated by these upcoming missions, theoretical and numerical work has recently been performed in order to investigate the behavior of granular material at the surface of small asteroids, such as Ryugu and Bennu (Scheeres et al. 2010; Sanchez and Scheeres 2014; Hirabayashi et al. 2015; Thuillet et al. 2017). In particular, the response of a layer of regolith to a low-velocity impact is investigated in, e.g., Maurel et al. (2017) for MASCOT and Sánchez et al. (2013). Experimental works supporting these efforts are scarce and often performed under conditions very different from what can be expected during a landing/contact at the surface of small bodies (1g, hypervelocity impacts). For example, the experiment campaign performed by Housen and Holsapple (2003) to investigate crater formation in porous materials studied impacts at > 2 km/s (see Holsapple et al. (2002) and Housen and Holsapple (2011), for a review of other high-speed impact experiments in porous materials). In order to investigate the relative influence of gravity on the impact cratering and ejecta production processes in very large impact events, Housen et al. (1999) performed high-speed impacts into porous materials in a centrifuge at gravity levels up to 500g. While these experiments at high impact velocities are relevant for meteorite and inter-asteroid impacts, the velocity ranges are not applicable to the landing or sample collection on a surface in low gravity.
Theoretical and experimental studies that are more relevant to an asteroid landing situation are found in the study of impactor deceleration in a granular medium: the Katsuragi and Durian (2007, 2013) and Katsuragi and Blum (2017) series studies the drag force exerted by a granular material on a penetrating impactor; Clark et al. (2012) and Clark and Behringer (2013) study the impactor stopping time and the energy transfer from the impactor to the granular material at the grain level in quasi-2D setups; Seguin et al. (2008) studies the influence of container walls on the impactor penetration depth; and Machii et al. (2013) measures the influence of the target strength on the impact outcome. All these experiments were performed at impact speeds ranging from a few 10 cm/s to a few meters per second and provide therefore relevant data for the exploration of asteroid surfaces. However, their experiments were performed in 1g, and the application of their findings to small body surfaces, which can have gravity levels <10−5g, remains unexplored.
The study of low-velocity impacts into granular material in reduced gravity was started in 1998 with the Shuttle experiment COLLisions Into Dust Experiment (COLLIDE) (Colwell and Taylor 1999; Colwell 2003). Following experiments were performed during parabolic flight campaigns in 2002 and 2003, using the Physics of Regolith Impacts in Microgravity Experiment (PRIME) hardware setup (Colwell et al. 2008). More recent data collection was obtained with these two experiments during the PRIME-3 (Colwell et al. 2016) and COLLIDE-3 campaigns, on the NASA C-9 aircraft in 2014 and Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket in 2016, respectively. Both these experiment setups generate impacts of approximately centimeter-sized spherical projectiles onto beds of granular material at speeds of 1–230 cm/s and gravity levels ranging from reduced gravity (∼10−2g) to microgravity (<10−4g). The target materials used were quartz sand and JSC-1 lunar and JSC Mars-1 simulants, sieved at particle size <250μm. While the results of each of these experiment campaigns have been published separately (except for the most recent COLLIDE-3 campaign), the collected data set has now reached a size of ∼ 130 data points and presents the opportunity for a new and combined analysis, with the perspective of applying these experimental results to interactions with the regolith-covered surfaces of small Solar System bodies.
This is the undertaking of the present paper. We combine the data sets of all the COLLIDE and PRIME campaigns and show the collision outcomes, coefficients of restitution, ejecta speeds, and estimated mass in dependance of the impact velocity and environmental g-level. “Methods/Experimental” section describes the PRIME and COLLIDE hardware setups and data collected. The “Results” section describes the data analysis and results, which we then discuss in the “Discussion” section.
The data results presented here were collected over almost two decades during microgravity experimental campaigns on a variety of flight platforms. The hardware used to collect data can be divided into two families: (1) the COLLIDE experiment series, which flew on the Space Shuttle and a suborbital rocket, and (2) the PRIME experiment series, which flew on parabolic aircrafts.
Flight campaigns
The first two COLLIDE flight campaigns were performed in 1998 and 2001, onboard the Space Transportation System (Space Shuttle) STS-90 and STS-108 missions, respectively (COLLIDE-1 and COLLIDE-2). The experiment hardware and performance were described in Colwell and Taylor (1999) and Colwell (2003). During these flights, a total of nine impacts into regolith simulant were recorded.
More recently, in April 2016, a modified setup was flown on Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital rocket (COLLIDE-3). Parts of the Space Shuttle COLLIDE hardware were repurposed for this new campaign, and a total of four impactor boxes were accommodated into the crew capsule of New Shepard. Three of these boxes were similar to the Space Shuttle hardware, launching one projectile into a bed of regolith simulant. The fourth box was outfitted with a multi-launcher instead of the single-launcher configuration, now allowing for three impactors to be sequentially launched onto the bed of regolith simulant during the same experiment run.
For COLLIDE-3, four individual Impactor Box Systems (IBSs) of COLLIDE-2 were modified for flight on suborbital launch vehicles. We manufactured a vacuum chamber for each IBS in order to perform the impacts under vacuum conditions, because the New Shepard crew capsule stays at atmospheric pressure during the flight. Each vacuum chamber was outfitted with a viewport allowing for a camera outside of the chamber to record the impact. The IBS electronics were re-wired and connected to custom electronics outside the chamber via an electrical feedthrough. Both the chamber and IBS can be seen in Fig. 1.
COLLIDE-3 hardware. a The general setup showing the vacuum chamber with its viewport, the camera for data collection, and the experiment electronics for autonomous experiment run. b The Impactor Box System (IBS) located inside the vacuum chamber with the launcher and regolith tray
The camera system was entirely re-designed for the COLLIDE-3 campaign. While COLLIDE-1 and COLLIDE-2 used camcorders recording on digital video tapes, the new design used a GoPro Hero 3+ black edition recording data files on a microSD card. Both configurations required the retrieval of the tapes/memory card after the experiment run.
Three of the IBSs were used as single-launchers (one projectile per experiment run, like in the COLLIDE-1 and COLLIDE-2 campaigns), while the fourth one was modified to allow for the launching of three projectiles during the same experiment run. This modified setup was named multi-launcher. In a single-launcher IBS, the projectile is kept on a compressed spring by an aluminum bar. This bar is held in its closed position by a pin attached to two wires of memory shape alloy. When activated, these wires retract the pin and the released aluminum bar swings in its open position via a rotary spring. More details on the single-launcher setup can be found in Colwell and Taylor (1999) and Colwell (2003).
The multi-launcher is composed of three individual launchers (slightly smaller than a single-launcher), a central stepper motor, and a circular bottom plate. The stepper motor allows for the rotation of the bottom plate, which is outfitted with a drop hole. The projectiles inside individual launchers are kept on a compressed linear spring. They are held in place by an aluminum bar forced in its closed position by the presence of the bottom plate. This bar is held under tension by a rotary spring pressing it towards an open position. When the drop hole aligns with the launcher, the pin is freed thus allowing for the linear spring of the launcher to push the projectile outwards. Figure 2 shows the multi-launcher setup.
COLLIDE-3 multi-launcher system. a CAD side view showing the individual launchers (three, numbered) and the rotating plate at the bottom. b The multi-launcher from the bottom showing the rotating plate and a projectile (marked by an arrow) in its individual launcher through the plate’s drop hole
Projectiles and simulants
Table 1 details which projectiles and simulants were used for all three experiment campaigns. The projectiles used in the COLLIDE campaigns were Teflon and quartz spheres of diameters between 1 and 2 cm. These projectiles were chosen in order to vary the impact energies over the largest range of values possible while using the same hardware setup. For a similar projectile size, 1 cm projectiles had masses about one order of magnitude smaller than 2 cm projectiles.
Table 1 Projectiles and target materials of the three COLLIDE and the PRIME-3 campaigns
The target materials used were quartz sand, the lunar mare basalt simulant JSC-1, and the Mars soil simulant JSC Mars-1. The choice of these materials was not motivated by their mineralogic similarity to asteroid regolith, but rather by the shape of their grains. Indeed, from the relatively long history of inter-grain collision experiments (see Blum and Wurm (2008), for a review), it appears that the actual mineral composition of the grains plays a comparatively negligible role in granular material cohesion compared to the size and shape of the grains. A notable exception to this observation takes place if the regolith is composed of ices (in particular water ice) or covered with organics, which are much stickier than rocky regolith and therefore change the behavior of grain layers. Ices and organic materials are outside the scope of the present work, and we therefore only considered grain shape and sizes. The main difference between the chosen simulants is the grain shapes and surface texture, which are increasingly angular and irregular from quartz sand to JSC Mars-1 and to JSC-1 lunar simulants (Fig. 3). Note that quartz sand and JSC Mars-1 are more similar in shape compared with JSC-1.
Optical and scanning electron microscope (SEM) pictures of the simulants used in COLLIDE and PRIME experiments. a Quartz sand and b JSC Mars-1 and c JSC-1 lunar simulants. The samples were prepared in the same manner as for the experiments, by sieving the different grains to below 250 μm. d shows the details of the surface texture of JSC-1 grains
The target materials were sieved to sizes between 75 and 250 μm, which provides for a normal distribution between these two sizes, and filled into the target tray of dimensions of 13 × 13 × 2 cm3. Grain sizes on the surface of asteroids are known to have a size distribution ranging from micrometers to 10 m. The population of grains smaller than 1 cm is difficult to infer from available imaging of surfaces, such as for Vesta (Hiroi et al. 1994) and Eros (Dombard et al. 2010), as the image resolutions are usually >1 cm. However, from thermal inertia measurements, Gundlach and Blum (2013) has inferred average regolith grain sizes covering the surfaces of 26 asteroids. For 15 of these 26 bodies, they determined an average grain size of < 1 mm, which corresponds to the grain size distributions we used in the COLLIDE and PRIME experiments.
Seguin et al. (2008) studied the influence of the grain container size on the penetration depth of projectiles dropped into the container at speeds of < 3 m/s. They showed that for a granular material target composed of 300–400 μm-sized grains and projectile sizes ranging from 5 to 40 mm, the container bottom had an influence on the projectile penetration depth only if located at a few grain diameters from the surface. They also showed that the container side wall location had a vanishing influence on the impactor penetration for a ratio between the tray and projectile of > 5. Given their impact speeds and the size of their projectiles and target grains, their results are applicable to the COLLIDE and PRIME experiments. As the target trays were 13 × 13 cm2 (13 > 5 × 2 cm for a projectile of 2 cm in diameter) in lateral size and 2 cm deep (>> 250 μm grain diameter), we expect that the tray had no influence on the target response to the impacts performed in COLLIDE and PRIME.
The trays were consistently filled using the same procedure, in order to reproduce the same target density. This filling procedure consisted in the pouring of simulant material into the tray using a funnel, followed by the leveling of the surface using a flat metal ruler. We measured the porosities of targets produced in this manner in the laboratory (30 times) by filling the tray using this procedure, then measuring the mass of the target material using a scale. Knowing the container volume and the bulk density of the grains, we determined target porosities consistently ranging from 0.4 to 0.5. While the compaction level of fine grains at the surface of asteroids is not well determined, the bulk porosity of “rubble-pile” asteroids was estimated to be of this order by Britt et al. (2002), indicating that such porosity levels are relevant for the study of low-velocity impacts on asteroid surfaces.
In the COLLIDE experiment setup, the target was contained by a sliding door, with no particular measures to prevent further compaction through post-preparation handling and launch vibrations. However, the COLLIDE-3 videos, which have a high enough resolution to show details of the target tray filling after the door opened during the rocket flight, show no volume reduction of the target sample. The target compaction during COLLIDE-1 and COLLIDE-2 could not be quantified due to the low resolution of the video data, but the projectile impact location indicates that the target surface was not significantly shifted from its original position, so that we do not estimate porosities much below 0.4 during the experiment runs.
PRIME flew on three experiment campaigns on the NASA KC-135 and C-9 parabolic airplanes. The first flight campaign induced five flight weeks between July 2002 and May 2003 and is described in Colwell et al. (2008). The PRIME-1 campaign produced 108 successful impact recordings.
From the results of this first campaign, it was clear that the regolith was very sensitive to the residual accelerations of the aircraft. Therefore, the PRIME-2 hardware was modified to be partially free-floating. In this setup, the individual impact boxes could be pulled out of the overall payload structure, which was bolted to the airplane floor. The boxes were still attached to the structure by an electrical umbilical. Unexpectedly, the residual accelerations of the plane during parabolas were still high enough to introduce torques onto the impact boxes via this umbilical, generating a worse acceleration environment than during PRIME-1, and no scientific data could be collected.
The PRIME-3 hardware was designed to be entirely free-floating. Each impact box had its own electronics attached to it, including a battery pack for power. The following paragraph describes the hardware flown during the PRIME-3 1-week flight campaign in August 2014. The PRIME-3 campaign produced 25 impact recordings. During the flight campaign, the pilots flew a number of parabolas at 0.05g (named “asteroid-level” parabolas by the NASA flight support team) in addition to the usual microgravity ones. Out of the 25 recorded impacts, 7 were at asteroid level. Details on the PRIME-3 campaign can be found in Colwell et al. (2016).
Figure 4 shows the PRIME-3 hardware. It is composed of eight individual impact boxes that are kept in a structure bolted to the airplane floor. Each box can be slid out of the structure and used to perform an experiment run while completely free-floating during a parabola. The impact boxes were inherited from PRIME-1 and PRIME-2 and modified to allow for an autonomous experiment performance: while the regolith tray and launch mechanisms are similar, the electronics were re-designed to actuate them externally using a wireless signal. One camera was used to record the impacts in the individual chambers as it was attached to a bracket that could be switched from box to box. The camera used was also a GoPro Hero 3+ black edition. More details on the inside of the impact boxes can be found in Colwell et al. (2008).
PRIME-3 hardware. a The payload structure that is bolted to the aircraft floor and holds the eight impact boxes (only four are visible in this front view). b Interior of an impact box showing the regolith tray and the launch mechanism. During an experiment run, the tray door rotates to open (1) before the projectile gets launched towards the regolith bed (2)
During asteroid-level parabolas, the impactor box was placed on the floor of the airplane and the projectile launch initiated at the beginning of the parabola.
The list of projectiles and simulants for the 108 impacts recorded during the PRIME-1 campaign can be found in Colwell et al. (2008). Table 1 summarizes the projectiles and simulants used during the PRIME-3 campaign.
The target materials and preparation methods were the same as for COLLIDE (see “COLLIDE” section for details). The only difference with the COLLIDE targets is an additional contraption on the tray door that slightly compresses the target after preparation and through the pre-flight handling process. As the PRIME tray doors open by rotation rather than sliding, a plate was attached on the inner side facing the sample. Using four weak springs, this plate applies pressure on the target sample when the tray door is closed. In this way, the sample is jammed and its porosity remains unchanged (0.4 to 0.5 as described in “COLLIDE” section) during loading of the experiment boxes onto the aircraft.
As the target size distribution and porosity were the same for all the COLLIDE and PRIME campaigns, we combined the collected data sets. This section presents how we analyzed the impacts and the results we obtained, integrating all the data collected.
The platforms used to collect data in microgravity induced residual accelerations on the experiment hardware attached to them. These accelerations were around 10 −3g in the Space Shuttle (Colwell and Taylor 1999) and 10 −2g on the parabolic aircraft (Colwell 2003) and on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket (Wagner and DeForest 2016). The free-floating experiment boxes of PRIME-3 offered the best microgravity quality: with only air drag acting on the box moving at very low speeds (< 1 mm/s), no residual acceleration could be detected from our video data. This implies that these experiment runs were performed at residual accelerations under our detection threshold, 10 −4g. In addition to these microgravity experiment runs, the PRIME-3 flights also allowed us to perform seven experiment runs at 0.05g.
Across all the data collected, four types of collision outcome were observed:
Collisions producing ejecta with an embedded projectile (squares in Fig. 5): in these collisions, no motion of the projectile after the impact is detected. Either the ejecta blanket or individual particles could be tracked and their speed determined.
Outcomes of all the low-velocity impacts observed in PRIME-1, PRIME-3, and the COLLIDE campaigns as a function of the impact velocity. Circles: projectile embedded, no ejecta; diamonds: projectile rebound, no ejecta; squares: projectile embedded, ejecta production; triangles: projectile rebound, ejecta production; open symbols: quartz sand target; filled symbols: JSC-1 target; green plus sign: JSC Mars-1 target; red: reduced gravity (∼10−2g); black: microgravity (<10−4g). All impacts producing no ejecta are shown at a mean ejecta velocity of 1 cm/s for the clarity of the graph, even though no speed was measured as no ejecta was observed
Collisions producing ejecta with projectile rebound (triangles in Fig. 5): the projectile can be tracked after the collision. In addition to the ejecta speeds, a coefficient of restitution could be measured for the projectile.
Collisions with no ejecta but projectile rebound (diamonds in Fig. 5). The coefficient of restitution for the projectile could be measured.
Collisions with no ejecta and embedded projectile (circles in Fig. 5).
Figure 5 shows these outcomes as a function of the impact velocity. In this graph, all impacts not producing any ejecta were placed at a mean ejecta velocity of 1 cm/s. This is for the purpose of representing all the data on the same graph only, as no speed could be measured on absent ejecta (and a representation at 0 is not possible on a logarithmic scale). The following paragraphs give some additional details on these results for quartz sand and JSC-1 target materials.
JSC Mars-1 behaved similarly to quartz sand in reduced gravity (the JSC Mars-1 data points seen in Fig. 5 are mostly from the PRIME-1 campaign; see Table 1 in Colwell et al. (2008)). This can be explained by the similar grain shape between these two simulants (Fig. 3a, b). In microgravity, only one impact was available for data analysis, which was not enough for analyzing this set of data.
Ejecta production
Impacts in COLLIDE-2, COLLIDE-3, PRIME-1, and PRIME-3 resulted in the production of an ejecta blanket. In the PRIME-1 and most of the COLLIDE-2 data (Colwell 2003), individual ejecta particles could not be distinguished due to the low camera resolution. However, features of the ejecta blanket, in particular the fastest particles forming the upper edge of the blanket (named “corner” in Colwell et al. (2008)), were identified and allowed for the measurement of the upper end of the ejecta velocity distribution.
In PRIME-3, the camera resolution allowed for the individual tracking of ejecta particles. For these experiments, we were able to measure a mean ejecta velocity by directly tracking 30 particles for each impact, using the Spotlight software developed at NASA Glenn Research Center (Klimek and Wright 2006). However, due to the nature of the video data collected, the tracking of individual particles is limited to optically thin portions of the ejecta blanket. This includes but is not restricted to the ejecta “corner” mentioned above. Particle tracking was performed by three people independently in order to reduce the measurement errors. The ejecta grain velocity distribution obtained for each impact was normal and could be fit by a Gaussian curve. Details on the tracking methods can be found in Colwell et al. (2016) (see their Figs. 5 and 6). For PRIME-3 and COLLIDE-3, the characteristic ejecta velocity was chosen to be the Gaussian mean of velocity distribution of the tracked particles.
Combined PRIME-1 and PRIME-3 ejecta velocity measurements as a function of the impact velocity. PRIME-1 data is shown by red symbols. For PRIME-3, black symbols show impacts in the free-floating box (<10−4g), while green symbols show impacts at 0.05g. Impacts into quartz sand are marked by asterisks, and impacts into JSC-1 by triangles. Error bars are not shown for PRIME-1: they were smaller than the symbol size (Colwell 2003). PRIME-3 error bars represent the 1- σ error of the Gaussian fit to the velocity distribution of tracked particles. The dashed black line is a power law fit to the microgravity impacts in sand (index 0.50), and the red dashed line is a power law fit to all the impacts into JSC-1 (index 1.35)
Figure 6 shows the results of the ejecta speed measurements for PRIME-1 and PRIME-3. The 1- σ error bars for the Gaussian mean determination are shown for the PRIME-3 data points. COLLIDE-3 produced ejecta for only one impact, and the target material was JSC Mars-1. As stated above, JSC Mars-1 behaved similarly to quartz sand, and we are not including JSC Mars-1 results here. The plateau formed by the PRIME-1 microgravity data points (black asterisks representing quartz sand impacts) around 10 cm/s for impact energies below 104 ergs is due to the residual accelerations induced by the parabolic aircraft on the experiment boxes (on the order of 10 −2g). Only particles ejected with energies able to overcome the effect of this ambient gravity field were lifted from the target. For this reason, the slowest moving ejecta has a minimum speed, set by this g-level, and the measured velocities follow a plateau. This plateau also formed in PRIME-3 microgravity data, but at ejecta velocities around a few centimeters per second, indicating that residual accelerations were successfully reduced by the free-floating hardware configuration, compared to PRIME-1, which was attached to the aircraft frame.
The scatter of the PRIME-1 data points towards higher ejecta velocities was induced by the observational bias produced by the tracking method used: tracking the ejecta “corner” described above limits the recorded speeds to the fastest moving particles and is therefore only representative of the upper end of the ejecta velocity distribution: there is therefore a tendency to measure higher ejecta velocities at the same impact energies. However, the data points show a trend followed by the lower limit of the measured velocities: to guide the eye, we fit a power law to the impacts into quartz sand in microgravity. The index obtained is 1.35. For all impacts into JSC-1, a fitted power law index is at 0.50. We collected only one data point for JSC-1 ejecta at microgravity levels, which lies below this power law fit. Further data collection on JSC-1 ejecta-producing impacts in microgravity will be required in order to evaluate if this point is indicative of a different ejecta behavior between the two gravity levels.
The ejecta speeds measured for impacts at 0.05g during the PRIME-3 campaign are of the same range as the ones measured during the PRIME-1 campaign, where microgravity parabolas were flown, but the experiment hardware was fixed to the aircraft frame. This demonstrates that the residual accelerations produced on the experiment when attached to the aircraft are comparable to 10 −2g and that our method for determining the average ejecta speeds provides similar values than the method used in Colwell et al. (2008).
We defined the effective coefficient of restitution of the impacts as the ratio between the average ejecta velocity and the projectile impact velocity and investigated its relationship to the impact velocity. These effective coefficients of restitution showed no correlation and a uniform distribution over the available range of impact velocities (Fig. 7). We calculated the overall average effective coefficient of restitution to be 0.39 ± 0.15. This value is about twice the one derived by Deboeuf et al. (2009) for impacts of centimeter-sized spheres into 100 μm glass bead beds. Deviations to our mean value were much higher than for the measurements performed in Deboeuf et al. (2009). When separating the impacts into quartz sand from the ones into JSC-1, we obtained average effective coefficients of restitution of 0.38 ± 0.15 and 0.45 ± 0.16, respectively. When separating between impacts in low gravity and microgravity, we obtained values of 0.43 ± 0.14 and 0.15 ± 0.04, respectively.
Effective coefficient of restitution of the impacts depicted in Fig. 6 (the same colors and symbols were used). This coefficient of restitution is defined as the ratio between the average ejecta velocity and the projectile impact velocity
Projectile rebound
A number of impacts during the COLLIDE-1, COLLIDE-3, and PRIME-3 campaigns showed a rebound of the projectile after impact on the target and allowed for the measurement of a coefficient of restitution \(\epsilon =\frac {v_{f}}{v_{i}}\), vi and vf being the projectile velocities before (initial) and after (final) the impact, respectively (see Table 1). Figure 8 shows the measured coefficients of restitution as a function of the impact energy. For speeds above 30 cm/s, impacts systematically produced an ejecta blanket and coefficients of restitution of the projectile could either not be measured or were of the order of 10 −2.
Combined PRIME-3 (black) and COLLIDE (green) coefficient of restitution measurements. This coefficient of restitution is defined as the ratio of the projectile speed after and before the impact with the regolith bed. Impacts into quartz sand are marked by asterisks, and impacts into JSC-1 by triangles. Error bars are shown for the PRIME-3 and COLLIDE-3 measurements. For COLLIDE-1 and COLLIDE-2, they can be found in Colwell (2003). The straight line represents the power law fit to all data points shown, which has an index of − 0.27
At impact speeds between about 20 and 30 cm/s, both ejecta production and projectile rebound without ejecta were observed. Below 20 cm/s, only rebounds without ejecta were observed. In order to compare our results to the experimental work of Katsuragi and Blum (2017), we fit a power law to this set of data. In Katsuragi and Blum (2017), spherical projectiles of about 1 cm in diameter are dropped into aggregates composed of 750 μm SiO2 monomer grains with a packing density of Φ = 0.35. The index we obtain with our data is − 0.27, similar to the value of − 1/4 found by Katsuragi and Blum (2017). We note, however, that if we separate the data sets from COLLIDE and PRIME, we obtain indexes of − 0.10 and − 0.50, respectively, a difference mostly due to the two very low-energy impacts into JSC-1 of the COLLIDE-1 flight. As mentioned in Katsuragi and Blum (2017), this overall index value is twice as high as expected from the theory of an elastic sphere impacting a plane surface (Johnson 1985; Thornton and Ning 1998). This indicates that energy absorption in a bed of granular material is not entirely captured by the mechanics of elastic surfaces.
Projectile penetration depth
In the PRIME-3 video data, the resolution is high enough to determine the maximum penetration depth of the projectile into the target for 21 impacts. This maximum penetration depth is defined as the distance between the bottom of the projectile and the target surface. Figure 9 shows these results as a function of the equivalent total drop distance H. This distance was derived to be able to compare our results with the ones obtained by Katsuragi and Blum (2017): H=h+zmax, where h is the drop height (experiments in Katsuragi and Blum (2017) are performed in 1g, and the drop height is used to control the impact velocity), and zmax is the maximum penetration depth of the projectile into the target. As the impact velocity was not determined by the drop height in PRIME experiments, but by the stored potential energy in the spring of the projectile launcher, we calculate an equivalent h from the impact velocity vi by equating the 1g potential energy with our kinetic impact energy as follows:
$$ \begin{aligned} E_{1g} &= E_{0g} \\ mgh &= \frac{1}{2}mv_{i}^{2} \\ h &= \frac{v_{i}^{2}}{2g} \end{aligned} $$
Maximum penetration depth of the projectile into the target for PRIME-3 impacts. H is the equivalent total drop distance as described in the text. Impacts into sand are marked by asterisks, and impacts into JSC-1 by triangles. The line represents an index 1 power law
with g = 9.81 m/s. As shown by the index 1 power law in Fig. 9, H is dominated by zmax in half of the impacts. This is due to the very low impact velocities, inducing equivalent drop heights h≪zmax, so that H∼zmax. We do not observe any correlation between the maximum penetration depth and the computed total equivalent drop distance. This is in contrast with the relation zmax∝H1/3 observed in Katsuragi and Blum (2017), representative of a scaling by impact energy. A scaling by momentum of the form \(z_{max} = Am_{p}^{\alpha }v_{i}^{\beta }\), with mp and vi being the projectile mass and impact velocity, respectively, and A, α, and β fit parameters, as performed in Güttler et al. (2009), was not successful either.
Grain behavior with decreasing gravity level
From the experimental results presented here, we observed differences in the response of the target to low-velocity impacts in reduced gravity (∼10−2g) and microgravity (<10−4g). Figure 5 shows that compared to the total number of impacts in reduced gravity (∼10−2g), only a few of them did not produce ejecta: the vast majority of impacts generated an ejecta curtain. In addition, none of the reduced-gravity impacts lead to a rebound of the projectile (no red triangles or diamonds). In particular, when no ejecta was produced around the lowest impact speeds observed (∼ 20 cm/s), only projectile embedding in the target could be seen. For the same impact speeds, a microgravity environment (<10−4g) lead to the rebound of the projectile. In fact, embedding into the target was only seen in the two impacts under 4 cm/s. All other impacts than those without ejecta showed a rebound of the projectile.
Projectile rebound was also observed in combination with an ejecta curtain in half of the impacts observed in microgravity (black triangles). Even though Fig. 8 shows that the coefficient of restitution of these rebounds is much smaller compared to the ones with no ejecta production (diamonds), this behavior demonstrates the differences in target response in reduced- and microgravity environments.
It can also be noted that for the same impact speed, ejecta is faster on average in reduced gravity compared to microgravity (red symbols are above black symbols in Fig. 5). In addition, less mass is ejected than in microgravity. Figure 10 shows the average ejecta speeds for four levels of ejected mass: as the ejecta mass cannot be measured after each experiment run (the return to 1g mixes the target material from the tray and the ejected particles), an estimation was performed from the video images. Four levels of ejecta mass were identified: no ejecta (0), individual particles detaching from the target (1), ejected mass of the order of the projectile mass (2), and ejected mass much higher than the projectile mass (3) (we followed the same numbering as in Colwell (2003)). In Fig. 10, the red symbols show reduced-gravity impacts (∼10−2g), and black symbols microgravity impacts (<10−4g). The impact velocity given for each target type and ejecta mass level is the average of all impacts that created the same amount of ejecta. From the sand targets, we can see that the same average impact speed results in higher ejecta masses in microgravity compared to reduced gravity. Together with Fig. 5, this shows that fewer target particles are ejected in reduced gravity, but their ejection speed is higher.
Arbitrary quantified amount of ejecta for all collected data on sand and JSC-1 targets. The amount of ejecta mass was quantified as follows: 0 = no ejecta; 1 = ejection of single particles; 2 = ejecta blanket, mass of the order of the projectile mass; and 3 = ejecta blanket, mass much higher than the projectile mass. The impact velocity given for each target type is the average of all impacts that created the same amount of ejecta. Asterisk = quartz sand target, triangle = JSC-1 lunar simulant target, black = microgravity impacts, red = reduced-gravity impacts. The dotted line marks the limit between no significant ejecta produced (either none at all or only individual particles detaching) and an ejecta blanket
Figure 10 also shows that no ejecta blanket was observed in microgravity with JSC-1 targets. While this is also due to the fact that only very few impacts were performed in JSC-1 in microgravity at speeds > 50 cm/s, the nature of the target plays a role in the ejecta mass produced: compared to quartz sand particles, which are rounded and considered cohesionless in vacuum (once the air humidity is removed), JSC-1 particles are more angular and behave like a cohesive powder. Figure 5 shows that only two out of eight impacts into JSC-1 at > 10 cm/s resulted in ejecta production, and these were only individual particles detaching instead of an ejecta blanket. As we can see in Fig. 10, the impact speed does not seem to influence the production if these individual particles in JSC-1 targets, compared to quartz sand targets, which display a more consistent trend of increasing ejecta mass with increasing impact velocity. When an ejecta blanket is produced though, we can see that higher impact velocities result in higher ejected masses for both quartz sand and JSC-1 targets.
Observing ejecta
Due to the hyper-g levels experienced after the low-gravity phase, the state of the target and projectile after each impact is destroyed and the PRIME and COLLIDE data collection relies solely on video recordings. In particular, it is not possible to measure the ejected mass, nor the trajectories of all ejected particles in the case of an ejecta blanket forming. As described in “Ejecta production” section, ejected particles could only be tracked in thin parts of the ejecta blanket or in the case of single particles being lifted rather than a blanket. Figure 11a shows an example of particle tracks superposed with the ejecta blanket: even though we can get particle speeds from these partial tracks, there is a high uncertainty in placing the origin of each track with respect to the surface of the target material and embedded projectile, which location can only be estimated as it is obscured by the ejecta blanket. For this reason, it is not possible to generate mass vs. speed or speed vs. launch position diagrams for ejecta, in order to compare them to 1-g data and the scaling laws derived in Housen and Holsapple (2011).
Data analysis examples. a COLLIDE-3 IBS 3 impact into JSC Mars-1 at 29.3 cm/s. Particle tracks are superposed in green, and the approximate projectile position is shown with a green circle, as the ejecta curtain hides it entirely. The mirror above the target tray shows a top view of the impact, in which the projectile is visible. b COLLIDE-3 IBS 2 impact into quartz sand at 26.3 cm/s. Note the mass transfer onto the projectile after rebound. c PRIME-3 rebound observation: t0 indicates the moment of deepest penetration of the projectile into the target. (Top) Case of ejecta production without projectile rebound (flight 1, box 1): no marble motion can be detected for 183 ms. In the following frames, the ejecta curtain hides the projectile, which cannot be tracked anymore. (Bottom) Case of ejecta production with projectile rebound (flight 2, box 5): we can track the motion of the projectile over 10 frames and 4 pixels
Observing projectile rebound
As described in the previous section, a rebound of the projectile from the target was never observed in reduced-gravity conditions, compared to microgravity. This could be due to two factors: either no rebound took place or the rebound was too small to be observed at the space and time resolution of the video recordings of the impacts. In the case that the absence of observed rebound in reduced gravity is only due to resolution limitations of the experiment cameras, we can assume that the rebound takes place with the same coefficient of restitution as in microgravity and calculate the distance and time travelled by the projectile after the impact before it gets stopped by gravity. As the only force on the projectile after it leaves the target again is gravity, simple Newtonian mechanics give us the time t0 at the apogee of its trajectory and the height h above the target it reaches at t0:
$$ t_{0} = \frac{v_{r}}{g_{l}} \quad ; \quad h = \frac{1}{2}\frac{v_{r}^{2}}{g_{l}} $$
where vr is the rebound speed and gl the value of the local gravity acceleration.
For impact speeds around 40 cm/s, we measure coefficients of restitution around 0.02 (see Fig. 8). This would set vr to 8 mm/s. Reduced-gravity environments had gravity levels around 10 −2g; thus, gl∼0.1 m/s2. This leads to a travel time of t0 = 80 ms and a rebound travel height of h = 320 μm. During the PRIME-3 campaign, the camera resolution was around 80 μm/pixel and the recording was performed at 120 fps (about 8 ms between frames). In addition, reduced-gravity environments during this campaign lead to short parabolic trajectories of the ejected particles consistent with a ∼ 0.05g acceleration environment, leaving a clear view of the projectile during the entire recording. This means that a rebound would have been observed and a rebound motion could have been measured for 10 frames and over 4 pixels. As no rebound was observed, it appears that they were due to a different behavior of the target and no rebound actually took place in reduced gravity. To illustrate this, we show two PRIME-3 impacts with different outcomes in Fig. 11c and their measured projectile positions, at deepest penetration (t0) and after 22 (no rebound) and 4 (rebound) frames. Some impacts generating few ejecta allow for a long-term tracking of the projectile after the impact, allowing for the detection of rebound speeds as low as a few millimeters per second. However, large ejecta blankets obstruct the view of the projectile (see Fig. 11a), thus limiting the observation of very low rebound speeds in these cases.
Scaling the penetration depth
As shown in Fig. 9, scaling the maximum penetration depth of the projectile into the target (zmax) with either the impact energy or momentum was not possible. Here, the difference in gravity levels (reduced or microgravity) did not appear in the distribution of the data points. Following Katsuragi and Durian (2013), Fig. 12a shows zmax as a function of the quantity \(\mu ^{-1}(\rho _{p}/\rho _{g})^{1/2}D_{p}^{2/3}H^{1/3}\). In this quantity, μ is the coefficient of friction of the target material. From angle of repose measurements, we can estimate that μ = 0.84 for JSC-1 and 0.67 for quartz sand (Brisset et al. 2016). ρp and ρg are the densities of the projectile and target material, respectively; Dp is the projectile diameter; and H is the equivalent total drop distance as defined in the paragraph on penetration depth results. Figure 12a allowed us to recognize two groups of data points, which we distinguished by color: impacts with projectiles of masses around 10 g (see the PRIME-3 data in Table 1: 9.82 to 11.76 g) in black and impacts with ∼ 30 g projectiles (28.2 to 30.75 g). Power law fits to each population yielded similar indexes of about 2.5 and a factor of about 3 between both. We concluded that our data set scales with \(\mu ^{-1}(\rho _{p}/\rho _{g})^{0.1}D_{p}^{2/3}H^{1/3}\), the exponent for ρp/ρg being 0.1 rather than 0.5 (all PRIME-3 projectiles have the same diameter of 2 cm). The result of this scaling is shown in Fig. 12b.
Scaling of the maximum penetration depth during PRIME-3 impacts. a With the quantity \(\mu ^{-1}(\rho _{p}/\rho _{g})^{1/2}D_{p}^{2/3}H^{1/3}\) (see text for details) and b with \(\mu ^{-1}(\rho _{p}/\rho _{g})^{0.1}D_{p}^{2/3}H^{1/3}\). Asterisks and triangles represent quartz sand and JSC-1 targets, respectively. Impacts performed with projectiles of masses ∼ 10 g are marked by black symbols, and ∼ 30 g by red symbols. The black and red lines in a are power law fits to these two types of impacts (10 g and 30 g projectiles), both with indexes ∼ 2.5. The line in b shows the power law fit to the entire data set, with an index of 2.5
This scaling and the associated power law index are in contrast with the results by Katsuragi and Durian (2013). In particular, the contribution of the projectile to target densities ratio is reduced from an index 0.5 to 0.25, while the projectile diameter and impact energy have increased contributions from indexes of 0.67 to 1.67 and 0.33 to 0.83, respectively. The coefficient of friction has an increased contribution from an index − 1 to − 2.5 (μ<1). This means that in low gravity (no distinction between reduced gravity and microgravity), the diameter and kinetic energy of the projectiles play a more significant role in the penetration depth than the density ratio with the target material than in 1g. This reflects the fact that the gravity pull on the projectile during penetration is much reduced, and the density ratio between projectile and target material is a less significant factor during penetration. Large and high-velocity projectiles will penetrate the target easier in reduced gravity. The role of the cohesion between the target grains (which is implicit in the coefficient for friction μ) is increased by the reduced-gravity environment: cohesive targets are more efficiently stopping a projectile than in 1g. This supports the notion that cohesive forces can become significantly more important in low gravity compared to the weight of the target particles (see following paragraph).
Gravity-cohesion competition
In Fig. 13, we compare the ambient gravity forces to inter-particle cohesion forces (van der Waals), following the example of Scheeres et al. (2010), using measured inter-particle force values rather than model estimations. The straight black lines in this figure represent the cohesion force between two grains, which is linearly proportional to the particle radius, as measured for two different types of particles. We are using the Johnson-Kendall-Roberts theory (Johnson et al. 1971), estimating the force between two grains to be the pull-off force, Fpo=3πγr, γ being the surface energy of a grain and r its radius. The surface energies for quartz sand was measured in Kendall et al. (1987) and in Brisset et al. (2016) for polydisperse SiO2 particles in similar experiment conditions (vacuum levels of around 10 mTorr at room temperature). These polydisperse SiO2 grains were similar to JSC-1 lunar simulant in shape, while quartz sand has more rounded, less cohesive grains. The red dashed lines mark the force of gravity on individual grains for three g-levels, and the green vertical line marks the largest particles present in the target materials used in the present work.
Comparison between gravitational and cohesive forces depending on the grain radius. The black lines correspond to the measured pull-off force between SiO2 polydisperse (Brisset et al. 2016) and quartz sand grains (Kendall et al. 1987). The grain sizes at which the measurements were performed are marked as diamond symbols. The dashed red lines show the gravitational forces on the regolith grains for different g-level environments. The green line marks the largest particles of our target size distributions
In this figure, we can see that, for quartz sand, the forces induced on the target grains due to gravity are several orders of magnitude larger than inter-particle adhesive forces at 1g and 10 −2g. Only at 10 −5g, these two forces are of the same order for the smaller target particles. This can explain the reason for lower ejected masses and larger average ejecta speeds (at the same impact speed) observed in reduced gravity compared to microgravity: in reduced gravity, only the fastest, lighter grains can overcome the gravity field and be ejected from the target. In microgravity, the gravity force is low enough to allow for most grains to get lifted, even the slower ones, and the average ejecta speed is accordingly lower. In addition, as the gravity and cohesion forces are of the same order in microgravity, the target material displays a more elastic behavior: cohesion forces between the particles seem to allow for a partially elastic response of the surface to the impact, thus leading to a rebound of the projectile (see Fig. 5, open triangles and diamonds), while in reduced-gravity environments, the presence of a constant downward force locks the particles in place (e.g., jamming; (Cates et al. 1998)) and increases the inter-particle forces due to friction inside the material (Murdoch et al. 2013), thus preventing projectile rebound.
In Fig. 13, we can also see that JSC-1 targets (which approximately behave like SiO2 grains) have stronger cohesion forces between grains than quartz sand: the cohesion and gravity forces are of the same order already in reduced gravity, while cohesion dominates by several orders of magnitude in microgravity. The strong dominance of the cohesive forces can explain why none of the impacts in JSC-1 in microgravity created an ejecta curtain. While most impacts in JSC-1 were performed at speeds below 40 cm/s and higher impact speeds may have possibly triggered larger ejecta masses, impacts at similar speeds and in the same microgravity environment generated an ejecta curtain with sand target (Fig. 10). The predominance of cohesive forces between JSC-1 grains kept the target material from escaping.
We can also see a difference in behavior of the JSC-1 targets in reduced- and microgravity environments: for the same impact velocities, rebound is observed in microgravity, while the projectile embeds into the target in reduced gravity (filled black diamonds and red circles in Fig. 5). Even though JSC-1 displays a more cohesive behavior than sand in reduced gravity, the data indicates that these cohesion forces do not dominate gravity enough at 10 −2g to lead to the rebound of the projectile.
Interacting with small body surfaces
The experiments presented here are limited by the size of the target tray and projectile. However, it is possible to learn from their results about possible outcomes of surface interactions by spacecraft landers or sampling mechanisms. In particular, impact speeds under 1 m/s are typical for past and planned missions interacting with the surface of a small body; Philae touched down on the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko for the first time at ∼ 1 m/s, OSIRIS-REx’s Touch-And-Go (TAG) mechanism is planned to impact the surface of Bennu at around 20 cm/s, and Hayabusa-2’s MASCOT will land on Ryugu also at several 10 cm/s. The present experiments are therefore in a relevant impact speed regime. While the regolith size distribution on asteroid surfaces seems to heterogeneously include large and fine particles, images of the surfaces of asteroids visited by spacecraft show the presence of regions of very smooth terrain covered in grains of sizes below a millimeter (e.g., the smooth ponds on Eros; Cheng et al. (2002)). These smooth terrains also represent ideal surface interaction sites as they reduce the risks related to landing on uneven surfaces. Therefore, the target size distributions of our experiments are relevant to understanding spacecraft interactions with asteroid surfaces.
At these relevant impact speeds and grain sizes, we observed the new phenomenon of projectile bouncing off of granular material surfaces in microgravity. While numerical simulations are currently the only way of studying low-velocity impacts of spacecraft landers at the correct size scales, those simulations are mostly using hyper-velocity or 1g experiment impact data for calibration. The only simulations predicting and reproducing projectile bouncing from the surface (Maurel et al. 2017), for example, are using Earth gravity impact experiments at > 10 m/s into granular material (Yamamoto et al. 2006) or impacts on hard surfaces as input parameters (Biele et al. 2017). Maurel et al. (2017) specifically indicate the need for parameter refinement based on microgravity data from experiments.
It can be noted that the experimental conditions, in particular the level of residual accelerations, have a significant impact on the target behavior. Even for irregular grains that behave like cohesive powders, the granular material displayed a different behavior in reduced gravity and microgravity. This means that the behavior of granular material at the g-levels present on the surface of small asteroids (10 −4g and below) cannot be extrapolated from its behavior at lunar g-level (∼10−2g). Therefore, experiments relevant to the interaction with surfaces of bodies like Ryugu and Bennu will require the high-quality microgravity environment of free-fall drop towers or free-floating experiment hardware.
We have combined and analyzed low-velocity impacts into regolith from five experimental campaigns. The PRIME and COLLIDE experiment setups allowed for recording impacts of centimeter-sized spherical projectiles into a bed of regolith simulant (quartz sand and JSC-1 lunar and JSC Mars-1 simulants), sieved to sizes under 250 μm. Due to their flight platform, these experiments were run either at reduced-gravity levels of ∼10−2g when fixed to the parabolic aircraft or during 0.05g parabolas, or at microgravity levels of <10−4g, when free-floating in the airplane or during Shuttle and suborbital rocket campaigns. The impacts into regolith simulant resulted into four types of outcomes, some producing ejecta and some displaying projectile rebound. These results revealed major differences in the target behavior depending on if the experiment was run in reduced- or microgravity conditions. The main results of the data analysis can be summarized as follows:
We observed projectile rebound off the target in microgravity. None of the impacts in reduced gravity displayed a similar behavior. The coefficient of restitution of the impacts varied with the impact energy following a power law of index − 1/4 (Fig. 8);
The maximum penetration depth was observed to depend more on the projectile size and energy and less on its density difference with the target than in 1g;
For the same impact speeds, more mass was ejected in microgravity compared to reduced gravity, but the average ejecta speed was lower (Figs. 6 and 10);
The difference in cohesive forces in quartz sand and JSC-1 could be observed from the experiment results, with quartz sand behaving like a cohesionless material and JSC-1 displaying cohesive behavior. None of the impacts into JSC-1 generated an ejecta curtain in microgravity, and most of them displayed projectile rebound.
The results of these flight campaigns show that the acceleration environment at which experiments are performed has a significant influence on their outcome. The study of regolith behavior at the surface of small bodies (< 1 km-sized asteroids) will require acceleration environments below 10 −4g, as data cannot be extrapolated from behavior in reduced-gravity environments (>10−3g).
From our current data set, it clearly appears that more low-velocity impact data is required in microgravity conditions. This is due to the fact that clean microgravity environments are difficult to obtain, with most platforms retaining residual acceleration levels around 10 −2g. In addition, more data is currently available for sand targets than for JSC-1 lunar simulant. As JSC-1 is more representative of the granular material expected on asteroids (in particular due to the irregular particle shape), data on JSC-1 targets is more relevant for application to small body surfaces. We can also note that all experiments presented here were run using similar target size distribution: particles sieved to sizes <250μm. From images returned of asteroid Itokawa (Fujiwara et al. 2006) and spectral analysis of Ryugu, we can infer that some asteroid surface regoliths have larger average grain sizes. For a future contribution of our experimental results into small body surface exploration missions, the investigation of grain behavior at sizes between 1 mm and 1 cm will be necessary. Such future experiments will be even more sensitive to the quality of the microgravity environment they will be run in due to the larger grain sizes (see Fig. 13).
CMR:
Center for Microgravity Research
COLLIDE:
COLLisions Into Dust Experiment
IBS:
Impactor Box System
ISRU:
In situ resource utilization
JSC:
MASCOT:
Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout
NASA:
OSIRIS-REx:
Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer
PRIME:
Physics of Regolith Impacts in Microgravity Experiment
Touch-And-Go
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We would like to thank our two anonymous reviewers for their valuable input and comments.
This research is based in part upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX11AQ87G issued by the Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program and under grant NNX12AK43G issued by the Outer Planets Research Program, by the NASA Flight Opportunities Program, and by funding from Space Florida for the Center for Microgravity Research.
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CONFERENCE EXTENDED TO PROVIDE MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE FLOORING BEST PRACTICE
A packed line-up of best practice technical presentations and case studies means the second annual commercial flooring conference will run for two full days (2-3 September 2013) alongside this year’s Flooring Show at Harrogate International Centre.
Following the success of last year’s first ever national commercial flooring conference, organisers Wendy Adams Associates and Media Generation have extended the conference and put together an enticing programme of presentations and demonstrations from the industry’s top names.
Organiser Paul Stott said: “The programme is designed to give delegates access to information about the latest product innovations in practice, and there’s also a new Trends Hub, offering an exciting insight into the future of flooring and surfaces.”
Presentations will showcase high profile projects include The St Pancras International Hotel by Brintons, the award-winning new offices of York City Council by So Vibrant and the new Leeds Arena by Populous and Leeds City Council.
In addition, there will be a special panel presentation and discussion on flooring for football stadia. Facilities managers from top football clubs have been invited to explain how their facilities utilise the various flooring options for a diverse range of activities and requirements other than sport – from conferences and banquets, to retail and museums.
Sectors covered by the conference programme will include education, healthcare, sport, health & fitness, hotels & restaurants, office, entertainment & leisure, and housing including social housing. In addition, there will be a special focus on the important areas of BIM (Building Information Modelling) and Sustainability.
Last year’s hugely popular Demo Zone returns, with flooring installation innovations and techniques demonstrated by top names and spearheaded by the Contract Flooring Association (CFA), The Flooring Industry Training Association (FITA) and the National Institute of Carpet & Floorlayers (NCIF). There will also be a parallel series of CPD workshops relevant to the CPD needs of surveyors, interior designers and architects.
The Flooring Show exhibition, taking place 1-3 September, is the perfect industry networking event, and this year boasts new initiatives and an impressive line-up of exhibitors and “show-stopper” speakers.
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Muji enters the tiny house game, showcases its line of wonderfully minimalist ‘Muji Huts’
RocketNews 24 (by Philip Kendall):
Japan does small better than pretty much any other country in the world. From intricate origami to beautiful bonsai to sushi made with barely a dozen grains of rice, the Japanese people are known for their dexterity and attention to detail.
It should come as no surprise, then, to learn that Japanese retailer Muji is now getting into the tiny house movement and recently showcased its range of prefabricated ‘Muji Hut’ minimalist homes and hangouts.
As a keen follower of the tiny house movement, I’ve spent literally hundreds of hours poring over videos, plans and concepts of small, minimalist homes built either out of financial necessity or by those who wish to simplify their lives. These micro-home owners have an altogether different view of what a house should be, keeping their possessions to an absolute minimum (or creating clever storage solutions to keep them out of the way), designing their homes so that rooms function differently depending on the time of day, and embracing a lifestyle that favours the use of shared spaces. It’s not what you’ve got but how you use it, they maintain, and it’s hard to argue when you see how happy this approach to life makes them.
Although its name is more likely to conjure up images of beige rugs, plain lampshades and stationery than one of architecture and floor plans, Muji—known as Mujirushi Ryouhin (lit. ‘no-logo goods’) in its homeland—has been building pre-fabricated homes for quite some time in Japan under the name of Muji House. These simple yet stylish homes are light, airy and functional, not to mention much more affordable than typical homes in Japan, and they seem to be growing in popularity every day.
And now, for those who want to downsize even further, the company has unveiled Muji Hut—a series of three prefabricated buildings of varying styles and dimensions suitable for either straight-up minimalist living or as weekend retreats or shelters.
First up is the ultra-small Arumi no Koya (lit. “aluminium hut”) by industrial designer Konstantin Grcic.
As its name suggests, the building is covered with in sheets of aluminium on all four sides, with a front that can be folded out to create additional shelter and a small deck, or closed for additional privacy and security.
The interior, while incredibly bare-bones, is surprisingly light and cosy thanks to the shoji paper doors on the front of the unit. The Arumi no Koya comes minus any kind of fittings besides a simple wooden ladder, but with its high ceiling and private loft space up above, this could easily be used as anything from a simple, single-person weekend dwelling to a artist’s studio or office space.
▼ You might want to add a few more bits and pieces to make it more homely…
▼ The shoji paper doors allow light to pour in while giving the owner privacy
Next up is a design that fans of Japanese interiors will no doubt immediately fall in love with. The Koruku no Koya (“cork hut”) was designed by English product and furniture designer Jasper Morrison and features, as its name implies, cork cladding on its exterior as well as a narrow, distinctive Japanese-style deck which surrounds the building.
Morrison’s design features a simple kitchen area, dining space and spacious living/sleeping area fitted with soft tatami-mat flooring, perfect for lazing around on while the wood-burning fire in the corner gets the place nice and warm.
The third and final structure, Ki no Koya (“wooden hut”), was designed by Japan’s own Naoto Fukusawa and is perhaps the most livable of the three designs, even for those unfamiliar with the tiny house movement.
The interior features a kitchenette, bathtub, wood-burning stove and dining area. The entire front of the house, meanwhile, is covered in glass to allow for plenty of natural light to enter. It looks wonderfully snug and inviting and we desperately wish we lived here.
They may appear unfeasibly small to some of our readers in the west, but in actuality many of the “one-room” apartments let out in Japan’s urban hubs offer less floorspace than the Muji’s two larger weekend retreats here, so with some careful planning and cutting back on one’s worldly possessions living in one would be quite possible.
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Categories: Architecture, Design, Links, Musings, Photo, Style Tags: architectural design, architecture, design, House, housing, Japan, Japanese, MUJI, tiny house
“Nakanosawagawa Tree House” by Japanese architect Ryo Yamada
While it might look like a traditional home from the outside, this dwelling designed by Japanese architect Ryo Yamada is anything but ordinary. Located in Sapporo, a city characterized by long, harsh winters, the pine structure features an unfinished interior and a top tree house floor.
A series of ladders reach up to the temporary tree houses above, which are built using pillars and beams. It is Yamada’s dream that the home remains unfinished, so that it can continue to change along with the family who inhabits it.
Check out more of Yamada’s work here.
Categories: Art, Design, Fashion, Links, Museums/Exhibitions, Musings, Photo, Style, Travel Tags: architect, architecture, House, Japan, Japanese, Ryo Yamada, Sapporo, travel, tree house
Man builds perfect, tiny Japanese house that could be yours for $70,000
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In this consumerist culture of ours, it seems like the never-ending scramble to acquire more and bigger worldly goods and possessions is becoming increasingly futile as economic issues tend to scupper every attempt we make at achieving those perhaps impossible ideals. It’s no wonder, then, that people are increasingly turning to minimalism and simplicity in their lives and in their homes. The Japanese aesthetic concept of wabi-sabi extols the virtues of living a life that is simple, rustic and close to nature, and we’ve been seeing elements of this start to crop up increasingly in the west, with the recent adoption of tiny, eco-friendly houses providing a possible alternative to an energy-guzzling modern pile of bricks.
Today we’d like to show you around one such teensy home, modelled around a traditional Japanese house and encompassing only 10 x 20 feet of space. Perhaps the most interesting thing about this mini-house, though, is that it was all made by the hands of one man – American Chris Heininge.
According to his website, Chris Heininge spent 20 years travelling around Asia as a Christian missionary, visiting countries such as India, Hong Kong, Macau and Japan. During this time he became interested in Japanese construction and design, and eventually went into the family business of construction himself, building several “tiny houses” inspired by the architecture and craftsmanship he’d seen on his travels. His latest creation is this miniature Japanese “Tiny House”, which for the asking price of $70,000 comes complete with a bathroom, sleeping loft and kitchen/dining room, and also features a simulated fireplace!
Let’s take a look inside!
We’re loving the simple design inside, and that seat looks super-cosy!
Check out the simulated fireplace! There’s also plenty of storage space available, with drawers built right into the stairs!
While the inside is undoubtedly pretty snug, it’s really not much more of a squeeze than your average Tokyo apartment, with the added benefit of being able to up sticks and move to another patch if you don’t like your neighbours!
The bathtub is just the right size for one!
We’d prefer a little more elbow room at the sink, but this really has everything you need.
The replica Japanese Tiny House shown in the pictures is one of a kind, and is currently the only Tiny House that Heininge has for sale. According to his website, the house’s eventual buyer will receive everything shown in the pictures, and he will personally deliver the house to the buyer provided they live within 50 miles of Portland, Oregon.
Categories: Design, Links, Musings, Photo, Style, Travel Tags: architecture, Asia, China, Chris Heininge, design, Hong Kong, House, India, Japan, Japanese, Japanese “Tiny House”, Japanese construction, Japanese design, Macau, minimalism, Tokyo, traditional Japanese house, Wabi-Sabi
Kal Penn addresses DePauw’s Class of 2014
Actor Kal Penn of Harold and Kumar and House fame spoke to graduates of DePauw Sunday with both humor and sage wisdom.
He apologized to the parents in the audience, explaining he was not CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
He also surmised that many of the graduates were hung over based on what he saw walking through campus the night before. “I’m specifically speaking to row 12,” he said.
But Penn didn’t go all Kumar on the graduates.
He gave them some sound advice about what to expect after leaving campus.
“Continue to read books, encourage the arts, talk with people who disagree with you, do crazy things, be selfless, share moments of love, remember what matters, do not make it rain,” he said.
He recalls being bitter being relegated to go-fer jobs as he tried to make a career in Hollywood, but he says now “I realize I learned a lot. I don’t think there’s such a thing as a waste of time, I just had the wrong attitude.”
Penn even warned them about some of the content they see on TV.
“Contrary to what TV sells us, fame is not a profession. Be careful not to confuse fame and status and money with actual things that actually matter — like happiness and humanity and kindness.”
Categories: Festivals/Events, Interviews, Links, Musings, News, Style, Video Tags: Class of 2014, DePauw University, graduation speech, Harold and Kumar, House, Kal Penn
Kal Penn to star in TV drama ‘Battle Creek’
House alum Kal Penn is reuniting with hit medical drama’s creator David Shore on Battle Creek. Penn is the first actor cast in the high-profile CBS series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan and Shore.
The project, from Sony TV, centers on a detective and an FBI agent with very different world views who are teamed up to clean up the semi-mean streets of Battle Creek, MI. Penn will play another local detective who initially has reservations about the newly arrived FBI agent. Penn, repped by Gersh, Industry Entertainment and Michael Fuller, explored multiple pilot offers before setting onBattle Creek because of his relationship with Shore on House where Penn co-starred for two seasons before leaving for a position in the White House.
Battle Creek brings him back at CBS where he starred on comedy series We Are Men this past season and previously recurred on How I Met Your Mother. Originally created by Gilligan at CBS in 2002, Battle Creek was tweaked by him and Shore. The two executive produce, with Shore serving as showrunner.
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Qianhai data centre designed as a ‘digital lighthouse’
Mecanoo, the international architectural firm, has released the innovative design for its new 63,000 sq m data centre, to be located in the Qianhai business centre in Shenzhen, China
The data centre will provide communications infrastructure for companies and for public services and utilities in the Qianhai zone. It also provides an ideally-located communications hub between Shenzhen, one of the fastest-growing commercial areas of mainland China, and Hong Kong, located just over the border at Qianhai.
The inventive facility consists of an opaque tower, housing the racks and data centre equipment, set atop an open plinth where office, meeting, and support spaces will be located.
The 113 m tower consists of concrete panels set with a grid of protruding concrete ‘pixels’, and light sources that can be brightened by project images on the structure itself at night, leading Mecanoo to describe the structure as a ‘digital lighthouse’.
By day, the concrete protrusions on the tower will create ‘an image of clouds in the style of a traditional Chinese painting’. The lower level will be planted with foliage, with offices on the exterior loop, providing a green space for the people working in and visiting the three-story control centre, offices, and support areas.
“Infrastructural facilities are the functional heart of modern cities,” states the Mecanoo website. “Although usually concealed, these buildings are essential for urban daily life. When visible, they have the capacity of being a symbol of the technological achievements of our time.”
The Qianhai Special Economic Zone was created in 2010 to facilitate communications between Hong Kong and mainland China, offering various incentives intended to encourage foreign financial investment. These policies include preferential tax treatments such as a 15 percent flat corporate income tax (a significant saving on the regular mainland corporate tax of 25%) and exemption from personal income tax for qualified employees.
Businesses in Qianhai include technology, finance, logistics, IT, communications, and other professional services. Corporate real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield named the Qianhai business zone one of the top three areas in the region for investors and developers, and believes that the 26 million sq m zone will be the fourth largest core business centre, in the world when completed.
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China starts development of new-era exascale supercomputer
Chinese scientists are developing a sample machine that will play a part in the development of a new era supercomputer capable of a quintillion calculations per second, official media reported today.PTI | July 28, 2016, 12:28 IST
BEIJING: Chinese scientists are developing a sample machine that will play a part in the development of a new era supercomputer capable of a quintillion calculations per second, official media reported today.
The National Supercomputer Centre in Tianjin is developing the exascale supercomputer with the National University of Defence Technology (NUDT), Meng Xiangfei, assistant director of the centre said.
The aim is to make the computer, which will be capable of a quintillion calculations per second, by 2020, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
It will be 200 times faster than China's Tianhe-1 supercomputer, and even faster than the most powerful supercomputers in the world, he said.
China's Sunway Taihu Light is the world's fastest system, capable of 93 quadrillion calculations per second, according to an announcement at the 2016 International Supercomputing Conference, Germany.
This new project will expand on existing theories and applications of the exascale system's hardware and software. The sample machine will hopefully be ready by early 2018, Meng said.
The new era computing system will mark a huge advancement in terms of intensity of calculation, capacity of single chips and the rate of data transmission, he said.
In 2010, the country's first petaflop supercomputer, Tianhe-1, which is capable of at least a million-billion calculations per second, was unveiled to the world.
At present, Tianhe-1 supports various tasks including oil exploration, high-end equipment manufacturing, biological medicine and animation design, and serves nearly 1,000 customers.
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KISS MY AZTEC!
Posted by Talktheatretome on September 11, 2019 September 24, 2019
KISS MY AZTEC! is both a title and sassy reply in this revisionist musical tale about the Aztecs, and all those uninvited Spaniards that keep arriving and offers an entertaining, and energetic spoof on Latinx history now playing at The La Jolla Playhouse.
The cast of La Jolla Playhouse’s production of Kiss My Aztec!
photo courtesy of Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre; photo courtesy of Alessandra Mello/Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Narrated by Tolima (Maria-Christina Oliveras), a native who has the ability to do some magic the story follows the Aztec people as they rise up against those unwanted invaders from Spain who are enslaving their people and stealing their gold. Colombina (Yani Marin) is the daughter of the leader El Jaguar Negro (Chad Carstarphen) and dreams of going into battle by his side and bringing victory to her people. Even though this feminist has the skills and the drive to be a great warrior she’s told to attend to more womanly duties. An instruction she takes as a challenge and sings a defiant “Don’t Tell Me What I Can’t Do” in response.
(Front) Yani Marin as Colombina with cast members (back row, l to r): Al Rodrigo, KC de la Cruz, Jesús E. Martínez, Desiree Rodriguez, Zachary Infante and Richard Henry Ruiz photo courtesy of Alessandra Mello/Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Meanwhile, the gentle Pepe (Joél Pérez) is an artist who is trying to avoid going into battle, preferring to perform his sock puppet comedy (one named Machu and the other Picchu) and trying to win the affections of Colombina. When they find that their soldiers are marching into a battle missing a key resource they plot to get inside the citadel to steal it and help win the battle.
In the citadel the leader of the Spanish Viceroy Rodrigo (Al Rodrigo) is trying to shore up his power while also managing his unruly children, the scheming Fernando (Zachary Infante) and the willful Pilar (Desireé Rodriguez) who are trying to oppose his every instruction.
Both Marin and Pérez are winning leads, and bring lots of comedic talent and good voices to their roles. They steal the show with their duet “Chained Melody” in the second act.
Carstarphen has a great number with the inspiring “Make the Impossible Possible”, and is very funny as Reymundo, the Spanish Cardinal who is also in cahoots and in bed with Fernando. Rodrigo as the villainous Viceroy is a worthy fairytale villain with his dramatic cape flourishes and dastardly plots of marrying off her daughter for his own power gain.
(Front) Zachary Infante (Sebastian); (back row, L – R): KC de la Cruz (Ensemble) and Angelica Beliard (Ensemble) photo courtesy of Kevin Berne/Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
Rodriguez stands out with a song “Dark Meat” plotting how to ruin her father’s plot to marry her off and to expand her sexual conquests at the same time. Infante is excellent as the calculating Fernando but steals the show as the Spanish Sebastian looking for a new bride in “New Girl, New World.”
The story is a fun folklore fantasy that entertains as it touches upon issues that still resonate today. Written by John Leguizamo and Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone this musical co-production between the La Jolla Playhouse and the Berkeley Repertory Theatre has a feverish energy, and biting commentary that you would expect from that collaboration.
The hallmarks of Leguizamo’s comedic style have clearly made it into the show; it’s funny, high energy, bold and brash, deliberately challenging, as well as a bit unwieldly. At over 2 hours there are times it feels unfocused and meandering and it would be a sharper production if it was edited a bit more.
There is an attempt to create a language hybrid infused with modern, hip hop, slang, and Elizabethan language that is effective but could benefit from not ending in so many words in “ist” or “ith.” After a while it starts to feel more forced than it needs to as the show goes on. (There is also plenty of adult language and situations for those who may find that offensive.)
Music by Benjamin Velez, and lyrics by David Kamp, Velez, and Leguizamo have created genre-hopping song infused with salsa, jazz, hip-hop, and more. It’s a fitting mix for a show about forced integration of diametrically opposed forces that the show doesn’t fit any one musical style.
Scenic design and costume design by Clint Ramos blends the contemporary with the industrial set allowing cast to climbs and utilize the varying heights, with costumes that range from fully historical costume to more modern uses of leather, denim, and more.
KISS MY AZTEC! is very spirited, and entertaining musical that explores the past to help us navigate the future with plenty of laughs.
KISS MY AZTEC! is playing at the La Jolla Playhouse through October 13th. For ticket and show time information go to www.lajollaplayhouse.org
Al RodrigoBenjamin VelezBerkeley Repertory TheatreChad CarstarphenDavid KampDesiree RodriguezJoel PerezJohn LeguizamoKISS MY AZTECLa Jolla PlayhouseMaria-Christina OliverasNew Musicaltheatre reviewTony TacconeYani MarinZachary Infante
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WELCOME TO THE TANA MONASTERY STUPA PROJECT
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As Buddha himself said, In the Sutra “Med Ton Djoung We do”
“Ananda, the merit accumulated by one who makes a Stupa of the Mahaparinirvana of perfect Buddhas, Tathagatas, and those who have been victorious over all demons, even If that Stupa Is the size of a myrobolan fruit, with a tree of life as thin as a needle, It’s umbrella like a leaf of the juniper leaf, the Statue the size of a barleycorn and the Relleslike a mustard seed, even though that merit Is much vaster than all merits accumulated by the sons and daughters
of noble family with Intense devotion, when they create three hundred thousand universes made of seven kinds of precious matters and offer them to Great Beings, such as “the one who has entered Into the stream” (Srotapinna), “the one who returns back only once” (SakadigAmi), “the one who returns no more’ (Anfigfimi), “the one who has been victorious over such enemies as conflicting emotions” (Arahant).”
The History of the 30 Gesar Stupas
The Gesar Stupas are situated in the region of the Tana Monastery (‘Tana’ means ‘horse ear’) south of Nanchen County, one day’s jeep ride and two days by horsefrom Nanchen, at a height of 5,000 metres above sea level. The name of the Tana Monastery was adopted by reference to the nearby mountains whose twin peaks stand up like two horse’s ears. The Monastery was founded by Sangye Yerpa (Yerpa Yeshe Tsik) of the Yerpa Kagyu lineage in 1068AD and an ascendant
of the Ling clan who descended from the Gesar of Ling. Sangye Yerpa was the root guru of Gesar Ling who, after receiving extraordinary teachings from his root guru offered 1,500 volumes of precious scriptures all written in gold ink, with covers of carved sandalwood embossed with diamonds, turquoises and rubies.These volumes of the Kanjyur and Tenjyur (the Buddha’s teachings and commentaries by later teachers) were so heavy that it needed one man to carry
just one volume. The Ling family also donated many precious images and included Gesar of Ling’s famous sword and armour, the armour and costumes of each of his 30 ministers of state and the jewellery costumes and ornaments of their wives. The remains and relics of Gesar of Ling and his 30 ministers were in the stupa, hence the origination of the 30 Gesar Stupas. All the precious texts that had been donated were destroyed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. As there were so many, the precious text are charred, however, the gold letterings still survive the fire and can be seen clearly on the remaining fragments. The Gesar Stupas were also destroyed and through the kindness of Samye Ling, efforts are being made to restore the stupas.
The Form of Perfection
Stupas are tall towers whose architectural features correspond directly with the way the Universe is formed. The Stupa, the focus of prayer and pilgrimage are manifestation of the perfect mind and a living embodiment of Dharmakaya, the body of the doctrine, and as such transmits positive energy to all those who come into contact with them.
The Tana Monastery Stupa Project in India
It is the wish of Tana Tulku Rinpoche, founder of the Tana Monastery in South India to build eight Stupas on part of the Monastery’s 6 acres of land allocated by the Indian Government to benefit all sentient beings and toprotect them from the five major disasters i.e. war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution and poverty.
Meaning of the Stupa
The Stupa represents the Buddha’s holy mind; Dharmakaya and each tower of the Stupa shows the path to Enlightenment. Building a Stupa is a very powerful and effective way to purify negative karma and obscurations and to accumulate extensive merit. You can have realizations of the path to Enlightenment and beable to perform perfect work to liberate suffering beings, who equal the skyleading them to the peerless happiness of Enlightenment which is the ultimate goal of life.
(i)Clairvoyance knowledge of the Buddhadharma and becoming the great’Wheel-turning Holder of the Wisdom Teachings (Mahayana Secret Mantra) if 1,000 Stupas are built.
(ii)After death without being born in the lower realms, but be reborn as a King.
(iii)You will be like the sun, rising in the world with perfect senses and beauty in form.
(iv)You will be able to remember past lives and see future lives.
(v)You will be able to listen to the Dharma without forgetting.
(vi)All negative karma and obscurations including the five uninterrupted negative karmas are purified even by dreaming of a Stupa, seeing a Stupa, hearing the sound of the bell of a Stupa and even for birds and flies, etc., by being touched by the shadow of a Stupa – “Stainless Beam Sutra.”
(vii)The sentient beings will always be protected by the Buddhas who will always be guiding them to achieve complete enlightenment. They abide in the irreversible stage.
(viii)In Shakyamuni Buddha’s sutras, it is extremely powerful to build a Stupa for those who have passed away as it immediately changes a suffering rebirthinto a fortunate rebirth with the opportunity to meet the Dharma.
(ix)It can also heal those with serious diseases.
(x)It accumulates extensive merit and brings success and happiness.
Hence dedicate to your ancestors, family members and friends who have passed away or who are sick and for the happiness of yourself and your family in thisand future lives.
Benefits and merits resulting from circumambulating the Stupa
The sublime Shariputra, renowned for his great Intelligence, asked the Buddha: “Could you say what are the benefits of circumambulating a Stupa ?
The Buddha answered:
” Here are the benefits occurring to one who circumambulates a Stupa. Free of the ‘eight unfavourable circumstances, he will be reborn in a noble family and will own numerous riches ; free of conflicting emotions (avarice, etc … ) he will enjoy practicing generosity, he will be handsome, attractive, will have a beautiful complexion, others will delight In seeing him ; he will have power over the world and will become a King of Dharma. Then he will obtain a fortunate rebirth and will be enthusiastic for the Buddha’s teaching; having completed the practice (yogas), he will perform great miracles andprogressively obtain the thirty two pure marks and the eighty physical perfections of the Buddha’s Body”.
Such was his answer.
These few benefits are nothing compared to all those that could yet be enounced about the circumambulation of a Stupa. By only seeing a Stupa, listening to the qualities of a Stupa, remembering a Stupa, touching a Stupa, etc … or even If It was only by passing in the shade of a Stupa, or being touched by the wind that passed over a Stupa, one will obtain happiness In this life and ultimately Awakening.
Construction of the Stupas
(adapted from ‘The Stupa Project Samye Ling Tibetan Centre writeup)
Firstly an area is designated for the construction of the Stupas. Pujas (prayers) will first be performed on the site designated for the Stupas and earth deities will be addressed for blessings to the site to remove all obstacles for smooth and successful construction of the Stupas. The people undertaking the construction must have the right motivation as every aspect of the Stupa emanates the pure mind of the Buddha.
The Lion’s Seat
Each Stupa sits on a square base the Lion’s Seat whose four sides represents the four qualities of mind basic – (love, compassion, joy and equanimity) to the attainment of enlightenment. The base is then traditionally filled with jewels, precious texts and relics pertaining to the tradition of the Stupa building. On the Lions seat are then built five steps representative of the progress of the mind towards enlightenment. Each step can be divided into two and alludes to the ten levels of Bodhisattva realization.
The Bumpa
On top of the steps is the Bumpa, a rounded form where a meditation room can be accommodated or it can be filled with precious and pure representations of the Buddha’s mind. The Bumpa itself is the representation of the seventeen levels of the Realm of Form. Out of the Bumpa a spire forms and on top of that sit ornaments which together represent the four stages of the Formless Realm. The Stupa’s outer and inner manifestation mirrors the pure mind.
The Central Axis
A central axis called the Sog Shing meaning ‘Life Stick’ is traditionally made from sandalwood or juniper. A monk with full ordination vows then craft the wood into the tapered shape and mantras are painted or craved over its surface and then wrapped in precious materials and affixed in place on the Lion’s seatto protrude to the Stupa’s highest point.
The Stupa is filled with relics which symbolically represent the utmost purity of mind and the Stupa itself represents the Buddha’s body and the Relics its life force and as such are even more vital than its outer form. The first relic, the Dharma relic or Tsa Tsa are small clay models of the stupas made by monks, nuns, or lay people who have taken the refuge ceremony and who have taken the eight precepts or Buddhist vows.
The second, third, fourth relic, to be placed in the Stupa is the remnant of the body of the Buddha himself, the Buddha’s rove and white grain of the Buddha’s bone respectively and the relics of the Great Masters, Guru Rinpoche, Tilopa, Marpa, Milarepa and His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa.
Finally the fifth relic is the Mantra relic which includes the 84,000 teachings of the Buddha along with the commentaries. A blessing ceremony takes place once the Stupas are completed and all the relics in place.
The benefits of the Stupa emanate far and wide and are said to go on for Aaeons.The positively generated is immeasurable. Liberation is said to be given by merely hearing about a Stupa, by touching, seeing, praying walking around it and having the offerings made to it.
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Between 2013 and 2015 the already well-entrenched Pepsi Co Inc. plans to spend in excess of 18 billion baht to further its already extensive reach in the Thailand and Southeast Asian marketplace.
Pepsi Cola first entered the Thailand market in 1952 and now, as it passes its 60th year of operations, a recent survey claims around 73 percent of Thai people who responded said Pepsi was their favourite brand of carbonated soft drink.
The company now wants to maintain and strengthen that solid position and has evolved a three-pronged strategy to move its business forward over the next two years.
In the first instance Pepsi Co Inc. announced they had inked a deal with DHL, the world-renowned logistics company, to take over the distribution of Pepsi products throughout Thailand and Southeast Asia.
The company has also signed distribution contracts with major retail outlets such as 7-Eleven, Big C, Family Mart, Makro, Tesco-Lotus, and Tops.
As part of these contracts the company will eventually install new freezers across these stores in Thailand and have post-mix machines with its partnership outlets.
Having strengthened their distribution network, Pepsi Co Inc. will complete work on its production plant at the Amata City Industrial Estate in Rayong province. The total cost of this plant is expected to be about 5.2 billion baht and will be the largest of its kind for Pepsi in the world.
In 2011 Pepsi Co Inc. accrued revenues in developing and emerging markets of around US$22 billion (about 682 billion baht) which was up from US$8 billion (about 248 billion baht) just six years ago.
The management of Pepsi-Cola are well aware of how strongly their product has grown in these markets, mainly in the Asia-Pacific belt, and wants to not only keep this momentum going but drive it even faster.
Naturally, these expansion plans augur well for local employment opportunities in the Rayong and Chonburi areas. In order to make sure their current workforce is kept well trained and primed for the next two years of expansion, Pepsi-Cola has invested over 9,000 hours of training to its 3,000-strong full and part-time employees through most of 2012.
As Jagrut Kotecha, the general manager for beverages of the Pepsi-Cola Thailand division, was quoted as saying, “Thailand is the largest market in Southeast Asia and a growth engine of [our] Asia-Pacific business, and we’re committed to investing in the market to drive our future business.”
Certainly the future of the carbonated soft drinks market in Thailand and the region (particularly with the opening of neighbour Myanmar) looks increasingly profitable.
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Police Wrap – 17 November 2010
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1. Fyshwick servo rolled:
ACT Policing is seeking witnesses to an aggravated robbery at the United Service Station in Fyshwick this morning (Wednesday November 17).
About 2.05am, a man entered the service station, approached the counter and threatened the male attendant with a knife, demanding cash.
The male attendant opened the register, and the offender reached over the counter and stole an amount of cash.
The offender exited the store on Canberra Avenue, and was last seen walking down Yallourn Street.
The male offender is described as being between 17 to 21 years old, approximately 160cms (5’3”) tall, with short blond hair. He was wearing black jeans and a white hooded jumper with a black pattern at the time of the incident. He also spoke with an Australian accent.
Anyone who was in Fyshwick near the United Service Station at the time of the incident, or knows the identity of the above male offender is urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via the Crime Stoppers website on www.act.crimestoppers.com.au. Information can be provided anonymously.
2. Car into house:
ACT Policing is investigating a collision which occurred at 1:00am this morning November 17, 2010 in which a car crashed through the wall of an Isabella Plains house.
Members of Tuggeranong Patrol attended the location and assisted the occupants evacuate the house.
Witnesses told police that they saw four young males flee the scene, leaving the vehicle halfway inside the house with a large hole in the exterior wall.
It is believed no one was injured in the incident. Damage to the house has been estimated at more than $100,000.
Enquiries by officers indicate that the vehicle was stolen earlier in the evening from a house in Monash.
ACT Fire Brigade officers attended the scene to assess the structural damage to the house.
Anyone who has information about the collision and/or the whereabouts of the driver or the passengers is urged to contact Crime Stoppers.
3. Smash the pokies!
Police seeking witnesses to club burglary
Police are investigating a burglary that occurred between 2.50am and 4.00am on Monday November 15, 2010 at the Weston Club.
The three offenders gained access to the club by smashing a window.
The offenders stole an amount of cash while causing significant damage, believed to be in excess of $200,000 to poker machines inside the club.
Anyone who may have seen people acting suspiciously, unusual activity or noises in or around the area of the Weston Club between 2.50am and 4.00am on Monday morning are urged to contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000, or via the Crime Stoppers.
Tags car into house collision fyshwick Isabella Plains pokies robbery servo weston weston club
10 Responses to Police Wrap – 17 November 2010
colourful sydney racing identity 10:29 am 18 Nov 10
p1 said :
Jethro said :
“He also spoke with an Australian accent”
That’ll narrow it down…
Didn’t someone on RiotAct suggest just the other day that no one would ever use language like that to describe a suspect?
No – it was about ethnic background, people can be of any ethnic background whilst having an Australian accent.
I have no problem with describing a persons appearance, down to the finest detail, if it is done by the police in the context of looking for a suspect.
What I do have a problem with is people using an anonymous internet forum to use an ethnic description of an alleged offender who committed a ‘crime’ that may or may not have happenned.
It just smacks of the great Chaser headline ‘ethnic wog gangs rape our women.’
p1 9:51 am 18 Nov 10
Jethro 9:01 pm 17 Nov 10
The Frots 7:16 pm 17 Nov 10
And they really look like their at the upper end of the intelligence spectrum don’t they? A couple of years in a ‘real prison’ in general population may benefit – well, if they like painting their nails and answering the name of ‘bitch’ anyway!
homeone 7:10 pm 17 Nov 10
ConanOfCooma said :
Damn – Those guys in the servo are always really friendly, it’s a shame.
I bet he’s from the caravan park. Or Quangers.
… or a bloke from Cooma on his way home ?
goose 6:08 pm 17 Nov 10
Wankers!
grunge_hippy 5:50 pm 17 Nov 10
that’s the second time in 6 months a car has crashed into a house on ellerston ave. people zoom around there like its bathurst. we live off ellerston and its hell trying to get out without being wiped out.
p1 3:37 pm 17 Nov 10
I wonder if smashing the pokies was some sort of political statement, or if they were just bored?
bundybrett 3:13 pm 17 Nov 10
sorry that happened there are some low lifes out there – should get a job not rob!
ConanOfCooma 2:46 pm 17 Nov 10
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Shaikh al-Albaani
Translations From His Works
Category: Praying Behind the People of Innovation
Al-Albaani Praying Behind a Sufi
Shaikh Esaam Moosaa Haadi said, “And in 1990 and 1991 our Shaikh used to pray Fajr in the mosque at the service station close to where I live and we used to pray Fajr with him. The Imaam of that mosque had a stance against al-Albaani and the Salafi da’wah, infact he was a Sufi but not an extreme one, despite that our Shaikh would pray behind him even though he knew about that.”
Muhaddithul-Asr, Imaam Muhammad Naasirud-Deen al-Albaani Kamaa ’Araftuhu, p. 121.
For detailed answers by the Shaikh on this topic please refer to the following posts:
Praying Behind the People of Innovation.
Al-Albaani asked, ‘O Shaikh of Ours! Do You Know the ‘Aqeedah of this Imaam You Pray Behind?’
Shaikh Esaam Moosaa Haadi said, “In the late 80’s our Shaikh, may Allaah have mercy on him, used to pray fajr behind an Imaam in the An-Nuzhah district, the mosque was far from the Shaikh but he used to love the salaah and recitation of this Imaam. There was a group of us brothers who would stand [waiting] for the Shaikh on the street and when he’d pass us he’d pick us up in his car and we’d go to pray with him and then we’d come back with him. One time, a young guy new [to the da’wah] in those days got in with us, on the way back he said to the Shaikh, ‘O Shaikh of ours! Do you know the ’aqeedah of this Imaam you pray behind?’ So our Shaikh said:
‘I don’t know his ’aqeedah just like I don’t know yours.’”
Praying Behind the People of Innovation | End | Praying Behind Someone who May Have Some Shirk
Questioner: In addition to the brother’s question, if the Imaam has some form of shirk, like making amulets or making fun of the Prophet’s Sunnah صلى الله عليه وسلم like the beard or shortening the thawb and so on …
Al-Albaani: Yaa Akhi, the issue of the beard and other such issues, that sin is on him, but as for shirk then that is the dangerous thing, but we, Ahlus-Sunnah, have to know that not everyone who falls into shirk has the ruling of being a mushrik applied to him, and that is because shirk is divided into [differing] categories, two of which concern us now: shirk [which one believes] from the heart [shirk qalbee], and spoken shirk [shirk lafdhi].
So if a Muslim who prays and fasts falls into spoken shirk, this spoken shirk may reflect shirk of the heart and [yet] it may not. So it is not allowed to judge this person who has committed shirk in a statement to say that he is a mushrik at heart except after having asked him about it in detail and sought clarification from him.
So if we were to assume that his shirk is from the first type, then he is a Muslim, who has for him and against him whatever we [as Muslims] have for us and against us. And maybe you have heard the Prophet’s صلى الله عليه وآله سلم saying to that man who heard one of his sermons and, wanting to express his obedience to him, said, ‘Whatever Allaah and you have willed!’ So he عليه السلام said, ‘Have you made me a partner of Allaah’s? Say, ‘Whatever Allaah Alone has willed.’’
So this is shirk, but spoken. He should have said, ‘Whatever Allaah willed and then you willed,’ but he made a mistake and said, ‘Whatever Allaah and you have willed!’ and so made the Prophet a partner by making him a peer of his Lord.
Also from this type is that a man from his Companions صلى الله عليه وآله سلم saw a dream in which he was walking in some of Medinah’s alleyways when he met a Jew, and so said to him, ‘How excellent a people you would be if only you never committed shirk with Allaah by saying, ‘Uzair is the son of Allaah.’ So the Jew said, ‘How excellent a people you would be if only you never committed shirk with Allaah by saying, ‘Whatever Allaah and Muhammad have willed!’
Then he went on a little and met a Christian, and so said to him, ‘How excellent a people you would be if only you never committed shirk with Allaah by saying, ‘Jesus is the son of Allaah.’ So the Christian said, ‘How excellent a people you would be if only you never committed shirk with Allaah by saying, ‘Whatever Allaah and Muhammad have willed!’
In the morning he went to the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and told him about his dream, so he said, ‘Have you related it to anyone?’ He said no and so the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام delivered a sermon to the people, saying, ‘O People! Oftentimes I would hear one of you say, ‘Whatever Allaah and Muhammad have willed!’ Verily, do not say, ‘Whatever Allaah and Muhammad have willed!’ but say, ‘Whatever Allaah Alone has willed …’ and in another narration [there occurs], ‘… whatever Allaah has willed and then you willed.’
So if the shirk of this person who you say is a mushrik is spoken, then he is a Muslim, and if it is revealed that his shirk is from the heart, then, too, we are not allowed to rush into declaring him to be a disbeliever as long as he testifies that none has the right to be worshipped except Allaah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allaah except after the proof is established against him. If it is and he still persists on his shirk and misguidance then he is cast aside.
Without such a clarification it is not allowed to declare to be a disbeliever a Muslim who testifies that none has the right to be worshipped except Allaah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allaah let alone one who prays the five daily prayers and leads the Muslims in that.
So we must pay heed to this detail.
Do you have anything else?
Questioner: And if he makes amulets?
Al-Albaani: It’s a mistake, O brother, this is a mistake, but we say that you must differentiate between disbelief in action [kufr amali] and disbelief that one actually believes in [kufr I’tiqadi], spoken disbelief and disbelief of the heart. [Making amulets] is haraam there is no doubt in that, but it is not allowed to declare him to be a disbeliever based only on these actions [i.e., without establishing the proof against him as the Shaikh mentioned above].
Questioner [asking a question on a different topic now]: After the tarawih prayer I heard them say, ‘Subhaanal-Malikil-Quddoos.’ Has this been reported from the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم?
Al-Albaani: Yes. This is an authentic Sunnah reported in Sunan an-Nisaa’i with an authentic chain of narration.
Questioner: May Allaah reward you with good.
Al-Albaani: And it is obligatory on us to revive these Sunnahs by virtue of the fact of the many things which are said in various countries and each country has its own customs and habits, the people have killed off the Sunnah.
Al-Hudaa wan-Noor, 574.
Praying Behind the People of Innovation | 9 | A Question from Holland: Brothers who Boycotted the Mosques Because the Imaams Oppose the Sunnah in Some Issues
Questioner: … when I said to you that a group of our brothers in a city in Holland boycott the mosques and that they were waiting for a fatwa from you such that if you said to them that it was permissible they, inshaa Allaah, would be totally ready to go to any mosque, and the reason they don’t go is because, as I mentioned to you, there are people of innovation there and that some of the Imaams there shave their beards and wear their thawbs below their ankles and other such things.
Al-Albaani: Ya’ni, this question is not connected to the Jamaa’ah of Takfeer and Hijrah?
Questioner: It’s as though they have left some of that thinking but other remnants from it still remain, from which is boycotting the mosques and not praying in them, and not establishing the Friday prayer.
Al-Albaani: If these people who have boycotted the mosques are from the Jamaa’ah of takfeer then the answer has preceded, but if they are from another group who have not been affected with their ideology then such people are very widespread in the Islamic world, such that they hold that it is not correct to pray behind people who oppose [the Sunnah] or innovate or things such as that.
So according to what we believe, this [stance of theirs] is taking the legislation to extremes and has no basis.
I don’t know if I mentioned some of the legislative texts in that [previous] gathering or a different one, from which is his saying عليه الصلاة والسلام about the Imaams, “If they lead the prayer correctly then they and you will receive the rewards, but if they make a mistake, then you will receive the reward for the prayer and the sin will be theirs.” [Bukhaari, no. 694]. Do you remember if we mentioned this hadith?
Questioner: No, you didn’t mention it …
Al-Albaani: We didn’t mention it …
Questioner: I went over the tape [and you never mentioned it].
Al-Albaani: Ok, it is the answer, i.e., it is not allowed for any Muslim to keep away from praying in a mosque as long as a Muslim Imaam is leading the prayer [there], even if in that Imaam’s ideology, aqidah, behaviour and manners, there is some deviation from the [correct] legislated rulings [in those areas].
So as we all know, Islaam always and forever orders unity, oneness, and being distant from the causes of disunity, such that the issue reached the level where the Prophet عليه الصلاة والسلام said a hadith like this which is express in showing the correctness of the prayer of someone who prays behind an Imaam even if that Imaam has shortcomings in some areas, so he صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم said, as occurs in Sahih Bukhari, reported by Abu Hurairah, may Allaah the Most High be pleased with him, that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم said, ‘They will lead you in prayer. If they do so correctly then they and you will receive the rewards, but if they make a mistake, then you will receive the reward for the prayer and the sin will be theirs.”
So if I had an opinion, or order, or piece of advice to direct to these people who you mentioned [in the question], then we order them with the Prophet’s order صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم who said what you just heard about the Imaams, “They will lead you in prayer. If they do so correctly then they and you will receive the rewards, but if they make a mistake, then you will receive the reward for the prayer and the sin will be theirs.”
This is the answer.
Praying Behind the People of Innovation | 8 | Following the Imaam if He is Mistaken
Questioner: If the Imaam performs the Qunut supplication in the morning prayer, raising his hands, and the one praying behind him knows that he performs the Qunut in the morning prayer, does the one praying behind him have to raise his hands in order to follow the Imaam?
Al-Albaani: Yes. Because of the previous hadith, and in reality this is a precise/detailed issue, because in the first part of that hadith he عليه السلام said, ‘The Imam is only there to be followed, so when he says, ‘Allaahu Akbar,’ then you should say it, and when he recites, then listen, and when he bows then you should bow, and when he says, ‘Allaah has heard the one who praised him,’ then say, ‘Our Lord, all praise is for you,’ and when he prostrates then you should prostrate, and if he prays standing then pray standing, and if he prays sitting then you should pray sitting.’
This hadith is a very great text concerning the fact that the praying person has to follow the Imaam even if it means that he has to leave a pillar of the prayer, not just something obligatory or sunnah [but a pillar even], because we all know that from the pillars of the prayer, without which the prayer is not correct, is to pray whilst standing, as He, the Most High, said, ‘… and stand before Allaah, devoutly obedient.’ [Baqarah 2:238]
If a man performed an obligatory prayer whilst sitting when he could have done so standing, then his prayer is null and void, this is in contrast to the optional prayer which the Legislator has permitted one to pray sitting, but He made its reward equivalent to half of the one who prays whilst standing.
As for [praying] the obligatory prayer whilst sitting if one is not ill or does not have any other excuse, then such a prayer is null and void.
Yet even though that is the case [and to show how important following the Imaam is], if the Imaam prayed whilst sitting out of illness then all of those who are following him, even though they are healthy, have to pray whilst sitting along with him as a realisation of this general principle, that, ‘The Imam is only there to be followed …’
And the circumstance relating to this hadith is that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم was riding an animal of his one day when he fell off and hurt a vein in the middle of his arm. The time for midday prayer approached and so he led them whilst sitting, since due to the severity of the impact he عليه السلام wasn’t able to do so standing. He عليه السلام noticed that the people behind him were praying standing, since firstly, this was what [in normal circumstances] was ordained for them and they always used to pray behind him عليه السلام standing, so he signalled for them to sit which they did and then he عليه السلام said, ‘You were almost about to do what the Persians do before their greats, they stand before their kings. ‘The Imam is only there to be followed, so when he says, ‘Allaahu Akbar,’ you should say it …’ until the end of the hadith.
So we notice here that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم ordered his Companions who were strong and healthy to sit down, because he was. He was the one who couldn’t stand and so was excused, those following him were able to stand, but the Wise Legislator deemed them to be excused from having to pray standing in order to follow the Imaam who, due to a valid excuse, was praying sitting.
For this reason, we say that when the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said, ‘… when he bows then you should bow and when he prostrates you should prostrate …’ he did not do so to mean that following the Imaam was only to be limited to these things, but rather it was to give an example [of the things he is to be followed in], and there is a difference between those things being mentioned by way of limitation and between being mentioned as some examples, i.e., the Prophet عليه السلام mentioned them as examples to affirm the principle that, ‘The Imam is only there to be followed …’
And we know, for example, that when an Imaam forgets [to sit for] the first tashhahud and stands, it is upon some of those following him to remind him by saying, ‘Subhaanallaah!’ So if he remembers, he goes back and this has some elaboration which maybe I can mention soon, and if the Imaam doesn’t remember and stands, then he will have left this [first] tashhahud, [he will have left] the sitting for the first tashhahud and what is to be read therein mistakenly–but we [i.e., the people praying behind him] follow him in that mistake [i.e., we have to stand up with him and can’t remain sitting to recite the tashhahud], because he has an excuse [i.e., forgetfulness].
And in a similar way, elimate each issue where difference has occurred between the Imaams, so if the Imaam is performing a prayer in which he opposes the Sunnah while believing himself to be upon the Sunnah, then we do not oppose him.
But as we mentioned earlier, if he left the Sunnah out of negligence/disregard then following him is not applied here, because he is not following the Sunnah and not following an Imaam, here we oppose him because he has opposed the Sunnah and his Imaam, so he is a negligent, lazy person who does not have an excuse.
So the principle is that he [i.e., the Imaam] is followed in whatever breach he has an excuse for, and if he doesn’t [have an excuse] then no, the Sunnah.
Al-Hudaa wan-Noor, 75.
Praying Behind the People of Innovation | 7 | A Question from America: Can A Group of Brothers Establish the Prayer at Home if the Imaam is Upon Innovation?
Al-Albaani: Wa alaikum salaam.
Questioner: Is his eminence, the Shaikh present?
Al-Albaani [out of humility]: The old, aged, Shaikh is present.
Questioner: May Allaah reward you with good, O Shaikh.
Al-Albaani: And you.
Questioner: Can we ask some questions, O Shaikh?
Al-Albaani: Yes.
Questioner: We called you yesterday and didn’t find you, so the brother al-Khateeb gave us some answers about the issue.
Questioner: And he asked us to call you today, so we are here in the city of Arlington in Texas, in the US, and we have a Mosque here with an Imaam …
Al-Albaani: He [i.e., al-Khateeb] explained the issue to me, so listen to the answer.
Any Imaam who leads the Muslims [in prayer], in any place, whether in a mosque or a musalla, or a house, or any other place, as long as the Muslims praying behind him hold that that Imaam is a Muslim, then their prayer behind him is correct–whatever their opinion about him is, whether in relation to aqidah or in terms of manners and actions.
So as long as his violation in aqidah or manners does not lead them to believe that he has disbelieved and left the fold of Islaam, then their prayer behind him is correct, due to his saying عليه الصلاة والسلام about the Imaams who lead you in prayer, “If they lead the prayer correctly then they and you will receive the rewards, but if they make a mistake, then you will receive the reward for the prayer and the sin will be theirs.” This hadith is in Sahih Bukhari, what does it say? “If they lead the prayer correctly then they and you will receive the rewards, but if they make a mistake, then you will receive the reward for the prayer and the sin will be theirs.” [Bukhaari, no. 694].
But in addition to this, if those who are being led in prayer are discontent with their Imaam in something related to aqidah or manners, then I advise that they try to replace him with someone else, someone better than him, if that is within their ability, and if it isn’t, then Allaah does not burden any soul with more than it can bear.
So it is either within your control or power to distance this Imaam of yours from being the Imaam and to bring someone better than him … this is something obligatory on you, or if the other case is true [i.e., it is not within your power], then your prayer behind him is correct as I told you before.
And through this legislated ruling it is possible for the Muslims to come together despite their differences and for them not to cut off or turn away from each other, has the answer become clear for you?
Questioner: It’s clear.
Al-Albaani: Good, what else do you have?
Questioner: It’s not allowed after … [tape unclear] … to pray on our own, is it allowed?
Al-Albaani: If the mosque, if the congregation is in the mosque and not outside it and the mosque has an appointed Imaam and an appointed muezzin behind whom the Muslims are gathered, yes.
Questioner: There is an appointed Imaam but not an appointed muezzin.
Al-Albaani: There is an appointed Imaam but not an appointed muezzin? This is something we cannot picture except in the land of disbelief which you live in. For this reason, it is upon you to emigrate from there.
As for the legislated ruling [Transl. note: the person’s question seems to have been about repeating the prayer in the mosque], then repeating the prayer in a mosque which has an appointed muezzin and Imaam who the Muslims gather behind, then here it is not allowed to split the congregation with a second congregational prayer and then a third and so on. But if the two conditions [i.e., the presence of both an appointed Imaam and muezzin] or one of them is not met as you mentioned, then fleeing that country is obligatory.
Questioner: Your eminence, Shaikh, in this situation, is it allowed to establish the congregation at home and not in the mosque, three or four brothers, for example, praying in a house?
Al-Albaani: Which situation do you mean?
Questioner: I don’t understand [your question], O Shaikh?
Al-Albaani: Which situation do you mean, you said, ‘In this situation …’
Questioner: In the situation where an Imaam has such things and such characteristics as lying and other things, we, for example, in … [unclear] …we are not innovators who would establish [a second, third etc.] congregation in the mosque, but, for example, we will establish it in a house, for example, three or four brothers or a number of brothers establish it in a house and do not pray behind that Imaam, and we pray the congregation in a house on our own, is that allowed or not?
Al-Albaani: Why won’t you pray behind him [i.e., the Imaam in the mosque]?
Questioner: Ya’ni, our prayer [behind him] is permissible even if he has those characteristics?
Al-Albaani: By Allaah, what did I just speak about [i.e., wasn’t my whole answer about that]?
Questioner: Yes, may Allaah reward you with good, O Shaikh, can I ask you a second question?
Praying Behind the People of Innovation | 6 | ‘To pray behind every righteous person or wicked sinner’
Questioner: Many of the practising brothers who are keen in sticking to the Sunnah frequently ask about praying behind Imaams who are innovators, from the Ash’aris or, if the term is correct, the extreme Sufis, those who say that it is permissible to seek succour from other than Allaah in those things which only Allaah is capable of, and that leaving off praying behind them will at most times lead to an abandonment of the Jamaa’ah, because most of the Imaams with us are from the people of innovation, except for a few.
Another Person: Allaah’s Aid is sought.
Al-Albaani to someone who entered the gathering: Welcome.
Questioner: So what do you say, may your excellence continue.
Al-Albaani: We’ve answered this more than one time, [saying] that prayer …
Questioner: Yes.
Someone who enters: As-Salaamu alaikum.
Al-Albaani: Wa alaikumus-Salaam wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu.
I hold, and knowledge is with Allaah, following on from what those who came after inherited from the Salaf, that it is legislated to pray behind every righteous person and wicked sinner, and to pray over every righteous person and wicked sinner and that the prayer performed behind such Imaams is correct.
As long as we, or at the very least as long as the one who is praying [behind that person], holds–and we stipulate the [following] condition–that whatever innovation or innovations the Imaam is upon, he has not left the fold of Islaam and [has not left being regarded as from amongst] the Muslims. He is an innovator, but without doubt and for a surety, not every innovator is a disbeliever, this is for sure. And if the situation is as such, then the one giving the the question [which you put] must place a check there and he must be precise, and this is what I am doing, so I say:
If the one praying behind an Imaam who is an innovator, whether that Imaam is a Sufi, or a Maaturidi, or an Ash’ari or … or, and so on to whatever other names the groups and parties have, if the one praying [behind such a person] holds that this Imaam who is an innovator has not left [the state of] being a Muslim, then the previous principle is employed, ‘To pray behind every righteous person or wicked sinner.’
And if he holds the opposite, that the Imaam has disbelieved, then it clearly goes without saying that praying behind him is not allowed.
But at the same time we warn [the people] from rushing to issue fatwas declaring a [single] Muslim to be a disbeliever, let alone Muslims, just because they fell into an innovation even if this innovation, as they say today, is one connected to aqidah. So one must take one’s time and be patient and not rush into issuing fatwas declaring others to be disbelievers.
Yet at the same time, we say that it is upon a Muslim to choose that the Imaam he prays behind is upon the Sunnah and correct aqidah and worship and manners, if he is able to, and if not, if the situation is that he has to choose between praying alone at home or praying behind that Imaam who has his innovations, then praying behind that Imaam is more fitting than praying alone …
Questioner: In order to preserve what is good …
Al-Albaani: Yes, thereafter along with that I say that if the person really is asking this question out of piety and devoutness, then I say, the door to devoutness is vast, when you come back from the mosque pray it again with your family.
Questioner: As occurred with some of the Salaf in times past.
Questioner: He said, ‘Those who delay the prayers from their appointed times …’
Al-Albaani: It is as such, [delaying] the prayer from its time. This is our answer in this issue.
Questioner: And the one he prayed behind the Imaam would be counted as optional.
Al-Albaani: Optional, yes.
Questioner: May Allaah bless you.
Praying Behind the People of Innovation | 5 |
Questioner: What is the situation with an Imaam who leads the people in prayer and is upon innovation, and all the time whenever we advise him he does not listen, in fact he hates us and is spiteful towards us, is it allowed to pray behind him or not, or does the innovation differ in terms of its … being whatever it is, ya’ni … [i.e., does praying behind him depend on what type of innovation he is upon]
Al-Albaani: Namely, whether it is an innovation which makes one a disbeliever or not?
Questioner: Whether it is an innovation which makes one a disbeliever or not, may Allaah reward you with good.
Al-Albaani: Firstly, I don’t know whether you were present at the previous sitting where we spoke about the Shee’ah?
Al-Albaani: And that it is not allowed for a Muslim to rush to declare the Shee’ah or others to be disbelievers just because they are Shee’ah, do you remember?
Al-Albaani: So it is even more the case that it is not allowed for us to declare someone who at the very least is regarded as being from us and amongst us, from the Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah, to be a disbeliever except if we see open and manifest disbelief from him.
Especially when, my brother, we live, as I think is clear to you from the previous gathering and this one–and I hope that we are able to have another such gathering or sittings and that is in Allaah the Mighty and Majestic’s Hands–[so I think it is clear] that you understand well that the people are as described by the Lord of the Worlds, “But most of mankind know not …” [Al-A’raaf 7:187]
For this reason it is not allowed for a Muslim to rush into declaring an individual from the Muslims to be a disbeliever as long as he is praying, and you now put forward a question about an Imaam who leads the people in prayer, so, in an authentic hadith it occurs that–and for this reason we encourage the Muslim youth to study the Sunnah and everyone who doesn’t study the Sunnah is in misguidance but the extent [of just how misguided] differs totally [from individual to individual]–in the authentic Sunnah it occurs that [the Prophet said], ‘I have been prohibited from killing those who pray.’
Is it not an analogy a fortiori [qiyaas awlawi] that [consequently] we say that I have been forbidden from declaring the Muslims to be disbelievers, this is an argument a fortiori, like His Saying, the Most High, “And your Lord has decreed that you not worship except Him, and to parents, good treatment. Whether one or both of them reach old age [while] with you, say not to them [so much as], ‘uff,’ and do not repel them …” [Israa 17:23] to the end of the aayah, so is it allowed for a son to hit his father? It is even less permissible, saying ‘uff’ is haraam so hitting him with your hand is even more severe in harm, this is called qiyas awlawi.
No one denies this, even Ibn Hazm fell into using this analogy sometimes even though he totally rejects [the use of] analogy [qiyaas]. The point is that it has been authentically reported that he عليه السلام said, ‘I have been prohibited from killing those who pray,’ so it is even more correct to [say that] I have been forbidden from declaring those who pray to be disbelievers.
May Allaah forbid it, but when we see open disbelief from someone who prays, whether he is an Imaam or not–and that [is something which] in reality [would] need to be researched specifically–then maybe it would be correct for me to say … rather, then it would not be permissible to declare him to be a disbeliever even if we saw open disbelief from him except after having established the proof against him, and [if] after having done so he [still] was not deterred or inhibited [from that disbelief], it is then that you would not pray behind him and it would not be permissible for you to deal with him as a Muslim.
As for the generality of those who pray now, whether the Imaams or the followers, then the foundational principle is that they are Muslims and it is not allowed to declare them to be disbelievers.
As for the prayer, then no matter what you don’t like about his prayer, whether you are right [in that] or mistaken, your prayer behind him is correct, i.e., let us assume that he prays incorrectly, he is the one who is incorrect in his innovation and you are correct in your judgement that he is an innovator but you have not declared him to be a disbeliever alhamdulillaah, even with this your prayer behind him is correct.
And you will not find this answer in the books of the madhhabs at all, if you have studied one of those madhhabs that are followed today, like the Hanafi [madhhab], or the Shaafi’i one … the agreement/contract of the Muslims would be dissolved and that which befell the Muslims of the previous generations would befall the Muslims of today, these are tragedies which happened in past Islamic history, and it has been reported that a bigot, and I don’t want to mention which madhhab [he was from], came to a mosque in which the Muslims were praying but not according to his madhhab, so he said, ‘Isn’t it time that this church closed its doors?’
It’s a mosque, the Muslims are praying in it according to one of the four madhhabs, not shee’ah, not khawaarij, not Zaidiyyah and so on, [they were praying according to] one of the four madhhabs, so this bigot says, ‘Isn’t it time that this church closed its doors?’
Similarly another of them who was a Qaadi judging according to the Sharee’ah, so he thought, said, ‘If it were up to me, I would have taken the jizyah from the Shaafi’is,’ just like that.
If we now wanted to implement some of the subsidiary issues present even till today in some of these books, [the result would be that] a Shaafi’i wouldn’t pray behind a Hanafi, and nor a Hanafi behind a Shaafi’i, because from the Hanafi texts [it is stated that], ’It is disliked to pray behind someone who opposes the madhhab.’
[Addressing those present] have any of you studied Hanafi or Shaafi’i fiqh so that we can discuss this issue with him?
‘It is disliked to pray behind someone who opposes the madhhab,’ in fact it could be nullified if the one praying behind a certain Imaam knows that the Imaam’s ablution is not correct and they gave examples of that, [like] if a Hanafi saw a Shaafi’i perform ablution completely and then he touched his wife then such a person’s ablution would be broken, sorry, I made a mistake … if there were a Hanafi who performed ablution and then touched his wife, his ablution according to the Hanafi madhhabs is correct, but not so according to the Shaafi’i one.
So the Shaafi’i does not hold the prayer to be correct behind him because he regards the ablution to have been broken. And the total opposite is true if the Hanafi were to perform ablution and then he bled, according to his madhhab his ablution would have been broken, such a prayer would be invalid in the eyes of someone who holds that view. So if there was a Hanafi who adopted the madhhab of Imaam ash-Shaafi’i that no matter how much blood comes out then the ablution is still correct, [a person who holds the other view] will not pray behind him.
Questioner: The Maaliki madhhab or the Hanafi madhhab?
Al-Albaani: No, I’m saying that now we’re talking about two madhhabs, the Hanafis who hold that if someone bleeds, no matter how little, the ablution is broken but if he touches a woman his ablution is sound, and conversely you have the Shaafi’is who say that touching a woman breaks the ablution but bleeding, no matter how plentiful, does not.
Salvation is found in embarking on the ship of salvation, the Sunnah.
Listen now to the answer from the Sunnah.
He عليه الصلاة والسلام said concerning the Imaams who lead us in prayer, “If they lead the prayer correctly then they and you will receive the rewards, but if they make a mistake, then you will receive the reward for the prayer and the sin will be theirs.” [Bukhaari, no. 694].
No answer or ruling more comprehensive then this can be found.
So I wanted to show that through such meaning and such a ruling it is possible to bring the Muslims together.
Wallaahi, as for [one person saying], ‘Your madhhab is such and such but my madhhab says this,’ then this is division which we have been prohibited from, “And do not be of those who associate others with Allaah. [Or] of those who have divided their religion and become sects, every faction rejoicing in what it has.” [Rum 30:31-32]
Perhaps you have obtained your answer, inshaa Allaah.
Let us have another question …
Praying Behind the People of Innovation | 4 | Al-Albaani Asked About Praying Behind the Quburis [People Who Fall Into Shirk Connected to the Graves]
Questioner: Another cassette reached us which had some of your statements regarding the fighting in Afghanistan and your fatwa about the permissibility of praying behind the grave-worshippers [Qaburis], so the people differed [after hearing this fatwa of yours], O Shaikh.
Al-Albaani: “… and they will not cease to differ, except whom your Lord has given mercy …” [Hud 118-119], this is the text of the Noble Quraan, “And if your Lord had willed, He could have made mankind one community; but they will not cease to differ, except whom your Lord has given mercy.” [Hud 118-119]
So differing is something very normal and there is no escape nor deliverance from it except by sticking to the Book and the Sunnah, for this reason, if some differing does occur then two things are obligatory on those who have differed:
The first is that this differing should not be a cause for disunity [and that it should not be] differing which leads to disunion/separation.
The second thing is that they should return to Allaah and His Messenger in that [issue], as Allaah the Mighty and Majestic said in the Quraan, “… and if you disagree over anything, refer it to Allaah and the Messenger, if you should believe in Allaah and the Last Day. That is the best [way] and best in result.” [Nisaa 4:59] And I believe that in many issues [people either] go too far or fall short.
In many issues there is excessiveness and negligence. Many of our brothers who cling to the Sunnah hold that one should not pray behind innovators but I say: these innovators, in our ruling about them based upon what is apparent to us, are either disbelievers or Muslims. So if they are disbelievers then praying behind them is not correct unanimously. And if they are Muslims then the prayer behind them is correct even if they are from the innovators or are misguided in some issues which they have left the Sunnah in.
And we have a hadith in Sahih Bukhari from Abu Hurairah, may Allaah the Most High be pleased with him, where he said that Allaah’s Messenger صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم said concerning the Imaams, “If they lead the prayer correctly then they and you will receive the rewards, but if they make a mistake, then you will receive the reward for the prayer and the sin will be theirs.” [Bukhaari, no. 694].
And another hadith also from Sahih Bukhari that a ruler in one of the cities, I think it was Medinah, during the time of the Amawis, his name was Uqbah ibn al-Walid as far as I recall, led the people in the morning prayer one day with four rak’ahs [instead of two]–because he was drunk, having drunk alcohol, so he didn’t know what he had prayed, and from his misguidance was that after he gave salaam to end the prayer he said [to the people], ‘Shall I give you some more [i.e., make it even longer]?’ He prayed four rak’ahs for fajr and yet along with that he said, ‘Shall I give you some more?’
The hadith is in Sahih Bukhari, [and Imaam Bukhaari is] the one who narrates the hadiths exactly as they are, and he didn’t relate to us that those Salaf repeated the prayer which that man led them in as four rak’ahs, why? Because of that first hadith [I mentioned to you, i.e.,], “If they lead the prayer correctly then they and you will receive the rewards, but if they make a mistake, then you will receive the reward for the prayer and the sin will be theirs.”
This is from one angle. The other angle is that there is no doubt that many of these innovators wanted what was correct but missed it, for this reason our obligation is to try to direct and guide them and not to take them as our opponents and enemies. And this issue is contingent upon what I mentioned just now: that as long as they are Muslims then they have the same rights as us and the same responsibilities.
And if they leave the fold of Islaam and become disbelievers like those who believe in Wahdatul-Wujood, for example, then it is not correct to pray behind them, but such people are not called innovators. The innovators are those like the Khawaarij, the Mu’tazilah, the Murji’ah–the Imaams of Hadith used to report hadith from them with the condition that they be truthful in that which they were reporting and had memorised their narrations and they did not declare them to be outside the fold of Islaam but gave them the ruling they deserved which was that they had left the Sunnah.
For this reason we do not become enthusiastic in warning the people from praying behind innovators, rather, many times I am asked openly, ‘Imaam so and so seeks intercession with the Awliyaa and the righteous, should we pray behind him?’ I say: yes, has he left the fold of Islaam through that … [tape cuts off here] …
And through this method, in my view, it is possible to bring together the views and differences [found] amongst the Muslims. As for if we were to pass the judgement that the one who innovated one innovation or many in Islaam has left Islaam then the distance [caused by] differing will increase between us and the Muslims, and this, without doubt is not allowed.
This is my opinion concerning praying behind the innovators, I don’t know if you have any comments that we can listen to and benefit from?
Questioner: Because … your old or previous stance … and it was a stance which … ya’ni, was strong concerning them, this became the foundation of those youth with us, it became a foundation which is difficult for them to leave.
Al-Albaani: The previous stance? What was it?
Questioner: Shaikh it was the categorical stance towards the innovators, even with us our stance regarding the innovators [became such] that everyone who seeks intercession is an innovator, everyone who seeks succour [with the Awliyaa] is an innovator, in fact, it reached such an extent that everyone who doesn’t move his finger in tashahhud [is an innovator] … i.e., a stance which was not good in this affair …
Questioner: So it has become, O Shaikh, ya’ni, the foundation of the youth’s stance is that there should be severity towards the grave-worshippers, towards those who seek intercession [through the righteous etc.], total severity.
Because frankly, O Shaikh, the situation of the grave-worshippers where we are is clear and manifest, and their seeking aid from other than Allaah is clear and none of them hide it, in fact they show enmity to the Ahlus-Sunnah through that, indeed they sometimes plot against the Ahlus-Sunnah, as is present now, and this has resulted in problems, so when they [i.e., those youth] heard this fatwa [of yours], the reality was that some of them were looking left and right [not knowing what to do], except that, alhamdulillaah, the stance of the people of knowledge with us was clear and they understood what you meant, O Shaikh, so alhamdulillaah, they clarified the situation.
Al-Albaani: Whatever the case, may Allaah bless you. What you mention concerning your country is in all countries, i.e., that the people of innovation fight the Ahlus-Sunnah.
Praying Behind the People of Innovation | 3 | The Ruling on Praying in Mosques Which Have Many Innovations in Them and on Praying Behind an Imaam Who is an Innovator
Questioner: What is the ruling on praying in mosques which have many innovations in them, and following on from that, [what is the ruling on] praying behind an Imaam who is an innovator?
Al-Albaani: This is a question which is asked very often these days, and even though from one angle it shows signs of something good from another it bodes evil.
It shows signs of being something good in that those people who are keen on [implementing] the Sunnah are increasing day by day, alhamdulillaah, and they have started to pay attention to the many innovations found in the mosques and Imaams and muezzins and so on and for this reason they avoid praying in those mosques that are full of innovations and [avoid] following the Imaams who oppose the Sunnah in many of the things they do in their prayers.
So this is something good–but for how long will we carry on asking questions like this?
And I always and forever repeat two things: the first is related to following [i.e., praying behind] an Imaam who is an innovator and that it is from the Sunnah to pray behind every righteous or sinful person, this is a point of creed, mentioned in the aqidah of Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah, [i.e.,] praying behind every righteous or wicked person, which is something contrary to what the Shee’ah do.
For the Shee’ah do not hold it to be valid to pray behind anyone except–[and here] I will not only say that they do not hold it to be valid to pray behind anyone except the Shee’ah–no, they are even more misguided than that, [for they say that prayer is not valid] except behind an infallible Imaam and naturally in their eyes such an Imaam can only be from the Shee’ah, from the Ahlul-Bait.
So the Salaf laid this principle down for us: that we even pray behind a wicked sinner, why?
Because in many hadiths it has been reported that prayer behind the tyrannical or oppressive Imaams is permissible, like his saying عليه السلام reported in Sahih Muslim, “There will be rulers over you who delay the prayer from its correct time, so if you meet them, pray the prayer at its correct time and then pray it with them, for it will be an optional prayer for you.”
And in another hadith which is more important, encompassing and greater, he said about the Imaams, “If they lead the prayer correctly then they and you will receive the rewards, but if they make a mistake, then you will receive the reward for the prayer and the sin will be theirs.” [Bukhaari, no. 694]. [Thus] what concern is it of a person’s when he is praying behind an innovator whether he [i.e., the Imaam] is praying according to the Sunnah or opposing it?
If he [i.e., the Imaam] is correct in his prayer then the reward is for him and us and if he makes a mistake then the sin is on him and the reward is for us, so we gain in both situations, just like [a person using] a saw, [whether he] pushes forward with it or pulls it back [on what he is cutting, either way it will cut and so he gains]. If we pray behind a Sunni Imaam then the reward is for us and if we pray behind an innovating Imaam then the reward is [still] for us–but his innovation is on his head and none of its sin reaches us. I always and forever repeat this regarding following these Imaams.
So this is an issue which I have constantly addressed and have mentioned that each Muslim is required to distance himself from praying in mosques that are decorated and full of innovations–but Allaah’s Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم spoke the truth when he said, ‘Indeed Islaam began as something strange and will return to being strange …’ nowadays it is rare that you will find a mosque which does not have an innovation or decorations by which they seek nearness, so they think, to Allaah, the Blessed and Most High.
If both types of mosque were present [i.e., ones with decorations and innovations and others without], I would have said that you should not pray in those mosques that are decorated and which have those innovations for it has been established from Ibn Umar, may Allaah be pleased with him, that he entered a mosque to pray the midday prayer when [all of a sudden] he was taken aback by a man calling out and saying, ‘The Prayer! The Prayer!’ after the actual call to prayer had been announced, so Ibn Umar said to the person with him, ‘Let us leave this mosque for there is innovation in it.’
If we wanted to copy this action of Ibn Umar’s in this age of ours we would have to stick to our houses for hardly a mosque can be found except that it is decorated … the carpets/prayer rugs and the images they are full of is enough, sometimes they have forbidden images, either they will have a forbidden image like a horse or something like that, a lion, or two crosses or something which resembles that. So there is hardly any mosque except that it has that which distracts [a person]–but, ‘Some evil is less than others [in severity].’
If the matter centres around us praying on our own at home and praying in decorated mosques in which the Imaams are innovators then we repel the greater evil with the lesser evil, especially when we are not responsible for that greater evil and nor did it emanate from us, it having done so from those other people.
If we hold back from the congregational prayer then we have sinned and opposed the Saying of our Lord, “And establish the prayer and give zakah and bow with those who bow [in worship and obedience].” [Baqarah 2:43]
This is a point we must not forget, “And establish the prayer and give zakah and bow with those who bow [in worship and obedience].” And what is that point [which we must not forget]? ‘Establish the prayer …’ i.e., perform it perfectly, ‘… and bow with those who bow …’ i.e., with the Muslim congregation.
So if we leave the congregational prayer in those mosques–[bearing in mind that] we are not responsible for the decorations in them or for the incorrect way that some of the Imaams perform the prayer therein, we are not responsible for both of these wrongs–but if we pray at home we will be responsible for having opposed our Lord’s Saying, i.e., ‘… and bow with those who bow …’
Praying Behind the People of Innovation | 2 | The Ruling Concerning the Youth Boycotting Those Mosques in Which the Imaams Fall Short in Implementing the Sunnah
Questioner: There are some youth in Morocco and Poland and other countries who boycott the mosques of the innovators, for example, [those who perform innovations such as] sending salaah on the Prophet of Allaah صلى الله عليه وسلم in unison, reading the Quraan in one voice, they do not give due attention to the Prophet’s Sunnah صلى الله عليه وسلم …
Al-Albaani: Like?
Questioner: … straightening the rows during prayer, saying Aameen loudly, and they also recite the Quraan in unison [as I mentioned above] and other things too.
Al-Albaani: From the mistakes of these Imaams boycotted by that group [of youths] you are speaking about is that they [i.e., those Imaams] do not establish the Sunnah, correct? [i.e., that is what you’re asking, right]?
Al-Albaani: This [itself] is something which is considered to be in opposition to the Sunnah: i.e., boycotting a mosque because of the shortcomings of the Imaams of these mosques in implementing the Sharee’ah rulings and their lack of due concern for the Prophetic Sunnah does not make it permissible for those keen on following the Sunnah to boycott those mosques–except if it is to leave a mosque which has innovations like those [you mentioned] for another mosque which does not.
As for boycotting in the manner described in the question, i.e., a total boycotting of all mosques, then the example of that is like someone who builds a palace but destroys a whole country in doing so.
Since establishing the prayer, establishing the five prayers with the Muslim congregation in the mosques is an obligation, and it is not permissible for a Muslim to turn away from or to be complacent in carrying it out except for a legislated excuse.
It is no excuse whatsoever that mosques should be completely abandoned because some of those who pray there, even if it be the Imaam himself, oppose the Sunnah in many or a few matters–except if it is like what I just mentioned, that a person leaves a mosque which is close to him and goes to another because it is free of innovation, this is something obligatory on those who want to cling to the Sunnah.
This is because in this day and age, if a Muslim wanted to go into such fine detail with the Imaams of the mosques he would have to seclude himself from all of the people, because you will hardly ever find a mosque today which is established on the Sunnah from all angles, this is something impossible.
And that is because firstly, all of the mosques, or most of them, are built with tainted money, and are built in a manner which opposes the Sunnah. You will hardly find a mosque today except that it is decorated and embellished, even Makkah and Madinah, as you know.
So if these people don’t want to pray in a mosque which has an innovation in it, where will they go? They will have to leave all the congregations of the Muslims and will remain in the corners of their homes, praying there. And as such many hadiths would apply to them about the one who opposes the jamaa’ah dying the death of the days of ignorance.
For we find an excuse for a person who leaves a certain mosque to go to another which has less innovations, I do not say that this other mosque does not have any innovations, this does not exist today, but as was said of old, ‘Some evil is less than others [in severity].’
So it is possible that a Muslim can find a mosque close or far from him which establishes the prayer on the Sunnah, but [still] it will be full of engravings and decorations, but he has no say in that.
So today the Muslim [should be] as the Prophet عليه السلام said in some authentic hadiths, ‘Be moderate and aim to do good …’ [Sahih Muslim, no. 7117], as for trying to find the Prophet’s Mosque as it was in his time عليه السلام, then he will not find it today–so will a person then isolate himself from the people by staying in his house and severing his ties between himself and the Muslims in the most sacred and pure of Allaah’s places as is mentioned in an authentic hadith that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said about the best and worst of places, ‘The best places are the mosques and the worst are the markets.’
So if a Muslim wants a mosque which does not have a single breach of the Sharee’ah, it will mean that he will leave the best of places, i.e., the mosques–and this is not allowed, because as you know the Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله سلم, and I will not prolong this too much, encouraged and stressed that one should pray with the Muslim congregation in the mosques, rather, Allaah the Mighty and Majestic ordered that in the Noble Quran when He said, “And establish prayer and give zakah and bow with those who bow [in worship and obedience].” [Baqarah 2:43]
Thus, these people who stay away from or who boycott praying in the mosques–they are not doing so based upon any knowledge, for if they were upon knowledge they would have known the principle that when a Muslim is presented with two evils, he chooses the lesser of the two.
So they either pray in these mosques which they have no control over, except for ordering the good and forbidding the evil, they can’t change the evil there with their hands but they can say a good word–so if they leave off praying in these mosques and do so in their houses it would mean that they would have left the legislated principle which [as I just mentioned is that] when a Muslim is presented with two evils, he chooses the lesser of the two.
But I [also] said that if there is a mosque which opposes the Sunnah less [than another] and a Muslim goes there leaving the one close to him, then this is something we order and encourage as far as we are able to do so.
It may be that one of these beginners in knowledge may have read, for example, the narration which occurs in Sunan Abee Dawud that Ibn Umar entered a mosque and heard a man calling out to the prayer, saying, ‘The prayer! The prayer!’ … in Syria after the call to prayer is given they open a window and [a person calls out and] his voice can be heard in the street, saying, ‘O worshippers, the prayer! O worshippers, the prayer!’–when the muezzin said, ‘Come to prayer! Come to success!’ was it in vain [such that this man now has to say these extra words after the call to prayer?] [Calling out with these extra words after the adhaan] is a correction of the One who laid down the Sharee’ah [i.e., Allaah], for this reason [going back to that narration of Ibn Umar], when he entered the mosque and heard that man calling out, he said, ‘This is a mosque which has an innovation in it,’ and he left it.
But this does not mean that one should leave all mosques, but rather that one should go to a mosque which does not have innovations [if he can find one], for this reason these people [mentioned in the question] were only overcome due to their lack of knowledge and their extremism in following the Sunnah and worship, and the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said, sincerely advising his Ummah, ‘Indeed, for every action there is some vigor, and each [instance of] vigor has a certain time, so whoever’s period [of vigor] is towards my Sunnah then he has been rightly guided, and whoever’s is towards an innovation, then he has gone astray.’
They flee from some innovations which they do not have the power to rectify and instead fall into a bigger innovation which they do have the power to change, and thus they fell into the madhhab of Abu Nawwaas who said, ‘And cure me with the disease [itself] …’
Al-Hudaa wan-Noor, no. 574.
Praying Behind the People of Innovation | 1 | There is a Distinction Between Praying Behind Innovators and Mixing with Them
Questioner: How do you deal with a dissenter [i.e., someone who opposes the Sunnah], between those who are too lenient which can lead to tamyee’ in practising the Sunnah, and those who are too harsh/strict which can lead to that which we have heard you mention many times, i.e., the lack of establishing the proof against the dissenter and other things, and I say this so as to not tire you by repeating what you have already mentioned.
But a doubt crops up based upon some actions of the Salaf, like the statement of some of them, ‘The hearts are weak, and sitting with the innovators snatches them away …’ and likewise, the fact that Imaam Ahmad, may Allaah have mercy on him, would drive the people away from al-Haarith al-Muhaasibi.
Al-Albaani: Yes, yes.
Someone Else: He prohibited that his books be read.
Questioner: … and dealing with this dissenter according to the scale of his good and bad deeds, i.e., there is a principle which says, ‘We look at the person’s good and bad actions,’ [but] then we have the statements of some of the Salaf regarding driving the innovators away even if they have some good deeds?
Al-Albaani: Yes. That which I hold, and Allaah knows best, is that the statements of the Salaf, are related regarding a Salafi environment, i.e., an environment that is full of strong faith and the correct following of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم and the Companions.
And [this issue you mentioned] is totally like that of boycotting, where a Muslim boycotts another to educate and discipline him, this is a well-known Sunnah. But my conviction, and how many times I’m asked about this, is that I say: our day and age is not right for boycotting, our day and age is not right for boycotting the innovators, because that means that you will have to go and live on the peak of a mountain, that you isolate yourself from the people and seclude yourself from them.
And that is because if you do boycott the people due to their sins or innovations then you will not have the effect which the Salaf used to have when they made those statements encouraging the people to avoid the people of innovation. There is no doubt that that is something which is derived from the directions of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم amongst which is his well-known saying, “The example of a good companion (who sits with you) in comparison with a bad one, is like that of the musk seller and the blacksmith’s bellows (or furnace); from the first you will either buy musk or enjoy its good smell while the bellows will either burn your clothes or your house, or you get a bad nasty smell thereof,” [Bukhaari], the well-known hadith, this is like what is mentioned in some places, ‘Your friend pulls/draws you [to whatever he/she is upon],’ ‘Your friend pulls/draws you [to whatever he/she is upon].’
But accompanying/associating with innovators is one thing and distancing yourself from them to such an extent … like that which is asked about often, for example [people will ask], ‘So and so is a Sufi who uses the Prophets and Messengers as intermediaries [instead of calling upon Allaah directly themselves],’ and so on, ‘… and he leads the people in prayer, should I pray behind him?’ I say: pray behind him, so this is one thing and [actually] accompanying and associating with him and benefitting from him is something else.
And I think that which will support me in this distinction and which comes together/agrees with the guidance of the Salaf stated in those words I just mentioned, is that it has reached us that from the aqidah of the Salaf as-Saalih is to pray behind and over every righteous person and sinner, so it will be from harshness that we take these statements to drive the people away from praying behind these Imaams [who lead the prayers in the mosques], Imaams amongst whom it is very rare to find those upon the Sunnah. The result of doing so would be that the people would have to stick to their houses and suspend the Jamaa’ah of the Muslims, such a thing goes against the statement of the Salaf that it is from aqidah to pray behind every righteous person or sinner.
But what is correct is that we warn these people from mixing with the people of innovation and the Sufis due to what we just mentioned in the hadith and [due to] the example which is a summary of the hadith, that, ‘Your friend pulls/draws you [to whatever he/she is upon].’
This is my opinion, and Allaah knows best.
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The Social Media You Should Stay Away From On July 27 (Based On Your Zodiac Sign)
By Holly Riordan Updated July 27, 2018
Carina König
Aries: March 21st – April 19th
Stay away from Twitter because you are going to come across a post that makes you livid and you are either going to get into an argument with that person or rant about that person to your friends IRL for hours on end.
Taurus: April 20th – May 20th
Stay away from Facebook because you are going to see a post from an ex or an almost that makes your stomach drop with disappointment.
Gemini: May 21st – June 20th
Stay away from Snapchat because you are going to have trouble taking a perfect selfie and then are going to feel bad about yourself, even though you were feeling pretty good about yourself only seconds earlier.
Cancer: June 21st – July 22nd
Stay away from Tinder because you are only going to find people who are interested in your body, not your mind.
Leo: July 23rd – August 22nd
Stay away from Instagram because you have been feeling insecure and scrolling through posts of pretty people is going to make you feel even worse about yourself.
Virgo: August 23rd – September 22nd
Stay away from Tumblr because you are accidentally going to come across spoilers of a show you haven’t finished binging yet.
Libra: September 23rd – October 22nd
Stay away from YouTube because you have a busy day and you don’t have enough time to waste watching ten minute videos at a time.
Scorpio: October 23rd – November 21st
Stay away from Facebook because you are going to come across a post from someone you should have deleted a long time ago and won’t be able to stop thinking about how much you cannot stand them.
Sagittarius: November 22nd – December 21st
Stay away from Tinder because there is no sense in forcing a connection with someone that you only feel ehh about.
Capricorn: December 22nd – January 19th
Stay away from all forms of social media today because you are going to end up killing time that could be spent productively.
Aquarius: January 20th – February 18th
Stay away from Pinterest because you are going to find a new project to begin — even though you already started a million other projects and haven’t finished any of them.
Pisces: February 19th – March 20th
Stay away from Instagram because you are going to have such an average day and looking at friends on expensive, luxurious vacations will make you feel like shit.
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Mars Mentorship Program Offers New Opportunities for Women in Global Emerging Markets
With only two females on a team of fifteen, the Global Emerging Markets [formally known as Asia-Australia, Middle East & Africa (AMEA)] leadership team realized they had to take action.
To assess the challenges, the office commissioned a survey to ask what women needed to succeed. Several women voiced their opinions for more advice and support — and in response, the team launched this Mentorship Program in 2018.
Now, not even a year later, the program redefines how women receive support on their leadership journey.
Monica Jain, Strategic Demand Director for Mars Wrigley in the Global Emerging Markets discovered the benefits of the program both for herself and for the business almost immediately.
“Not only does fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion feel right, it’s just good for business,” Monica says. “Associates are more engaged, productive and loyal when they are in an environment where they can be themselves. Customers look for partners who are creative, collaborative and bring diversity of thought to the table. At the end of the day, a diverse and inclusive culture drives better business performance.”
Monica is no stranger to leadership. She’s responsible for setting strategic direction for a cross-functional team overseeing the Demand functions in the Sales & Consumer Business Unit. The Global Emerging Markets is a fast-growing section of our business that covers 67 countries, five segments, two factories and over 600 associates. And she values the support she receives from the program.
“Taking part in the Mentorship Program allows me to work with my mentor to tackle some of the common challenges facing female leaders,” she says. “Together, my mentor and I focus on transforming my own personal stories which underlie these challenges and turn them into an empowering base for building success.”
“It’s not enough for our leaders to just believe in inclusion and diversity. We need to live it, and champion it every day. We need to role model the right behaviors, be innovative and courageous in challenging our own thinking, and continue to foster a safe and supportive environment where Associates are free to bring their whole self to work. We need to not only recognize our differences, but value that diversity.”
— Monica Jain, Strategic Demand Director for Mars Wrigley in Global Emerging Markets
Monica’s mentor, Tamer Kadry, is the Vice President of Service & Finance for the Global Emerging Markets, and choosing to mentor was easy for him.
“Unlocking people’s full potential is the biggest reward and my most fulfilling contribution as a leader,” he says.
But what about mentoring a woman?
Tamer says he believes in diversity and values the contributions women in leadership roles provide. He is a big fan of women leaders as he’s been lucky enough to have great female line managers in his career. “My best bosses were women,” he says.
The program is designed to help the mentee, but Tamer finds huge value in it himself. He says it forces him to sit back and reflect on his own impact and leadership style.
“Every question I ask is an opportunity to take my leadership impact to the next level,” he says. “The way Monica organizes and prepares for the sessions, she’s a role model to me. I use that now with the other people I mentor.”
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Interior ministry warns of possible attack on Musharraf
Defence team seeks trail of abettors, aiders for treason.
By Azam Khan
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf. PHOTO: REUTERS
ISLAMABAD:
A day before former military ruler Pervez Musharraf was supposed to be indicted by the special court in his treason trial, the interior ministry, which happens to be his prosecutor, warned that there is a serious threat to his life from the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and al Qaeda. Predictably, the warning led Musharraf to cancel his plan of appearing before the three-judge court on Tuesday (today).
Although Justice Faisal Arab, who leads the special court, has rejected all earlier pleas of the former military ruler, the interior ministry wrote to the relevant departments – Punjab home secretary, IGP Punjab, Islamabad chief commissioner, IGP Islamabad, Islamabad DIG Security and RPO Rawalpindi – saying that militants have thorough information about all possible routes from the Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (AFIC) to the National Library.
With “Threat alert: 239” as its subject, the letter claimed that TTP and al Qaeda ‘fighters’ were stationed along different routes taken by Musharraf’s escort. “It seems that the terrorists have sympathisers in the security/cavalcade of Musharraf in order to assassinate him. The plan may materialise either using IEDs/VBIED or inside/outside the courts similar to the incident of [former Punjab governor] Salman Taseer,” stated the document.
Talking to The Express Tribune, one of Musharraf’s lawyers Ahmed Raza Kasuri said the complainant was not ready to bring the defendant to the court as it claimed that terrorists were waiting for him on different routes. “Life is more important that justice,” he said, adding that his client would not show up on Tuesday.
Earlier, Musharraf’s defence team had presented a threat letter in the special court, claiming that it was sent by the TTP. The letter asked the defence team to separate themselves from the case or else they would be killed.
On Monday, a lawyer of Musharraf’s legal team told The Express Tribune that this time the warning came from the prosecution. Therefore, the former General has cancelled his plans to go to the court. He said the defence team would also ask the court to grant Musharraf permission to leave the country for his treatment and to attend his ailing mother in Dubai.
However, an official said that this official letter was deliberately made public to give a message to the special court judges.
There was no harm if this information or letter was kept secret, he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 11th, 2014.
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Sexton Blake
Mar 11, 2014 - 2:49AM
And so the comedy goes on.
its hypocritical if people cant realize how the currency strengthened and 1.5 billion came from KSA as guarantee was sought on this sham trial and pitting pakistan in syrian quagmire which will be a disaster
SBK-1103
why is Pakistan not holding the legal proceedings in Musharraf’s palatial house (‘currently deemed’ prison) similar to what was done regarding the legal proceedings being held in Arthur Road jail for all the accused in Mumbai Bomb Blast case?
the Skunk
Mar 11, 2014 - 10:07AM
The strength of the PKR is definitely due to some dirty wrangling with the two arch fiends the Muslim world knows…….USA alias KSA…….KSA alias USA. The energy and security situation has not improved to make FDI come banging at our doors. Exports do not pick up in the short term and take time for policy changes to take effect. Even under GSP Plus it will take about two years to show a difference. Salams
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The Express Tribune > Life & Style
Reham Khan: From Hazara to Bani Gala
Reham married her first cousin Ejazur Rehman at the tender age of 19
By Muhammad Sadaqat
PHOTO: REHAMKHANOFFICIAL.COM
MANSEHRA: Reham Khan became ‘naya Pakistan’s’ first lady today following nuptials with the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan.
Reham, who hails from the Hazara Division, is a former BBC journalist and at present is a current affairs anchor for a private television channel in Pakistan.
However, this is not the first marriage for the newlywed Reham. She was previously married to her first cousin Ejazur Rehman when she was just 19 years old. Her cousin and former husband was 33 at the time.
Her first marriage ended five years ago after the couple developed differences over Reham’s job at the BBC, according to her family. Like Imran, Reham also has children from her previous marriage – three – all of whom live with their father in England.
“As far as I know, Reham’s husband objected to her busy work routine,” one of her relatives told The Express Tribune.
Related: Is Reham Khan the first lady of ‘Naya Pakistan’?
Imran’s new wife has been under heavy media scrutiny for the past few weeks over her marriage with the PTI chief.
Interestingly, Reham’s real name is Reham Nayyar, and is the daughter of Dr Nayyar Ramzan who is from the Baffa village in Mansehra District.
She belongs to the Lughmani branch of the Swati tribe.
Another interesting fact is that the former civil servant and governor of the then North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Abdul Hakeem Khan, was her paternal uncle, Reham’s family revealed.
Her father is a physician who moved to Libya in the late 1960s, and Reham was born in Ajdabiya on April 3, 1973. She has two sisters and a brother, and currently resides in Rawalpindi with her mother.
Imran and Reham Khan tie the knot in Bani Gala
Mufti Syed confirms he conducted the Nikkah at the PTI chief's residence
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Wedding bells: Second marriage is not a crime, says Imran
PTI chief reportedly married TV anchor Reham Khan.
This is all so wrong it’s unbelievable. Her marriage actually ended 10 years ago, before she started working and the reasons for the divorce were certainly not her work schedule. None of the children live with the father, who is not fit to be a parent. The youngest daughter stays with her while the other two study in the UK. She also does not live in Rawalpindi. Do some proper research.
I pray for their successful life.
Aamir - Toronto
@Jeo……this is not the first time that ET published something without prior research, I hope they will stop this practice in near future !!!.
Arshad Kamal Khan
Jan 8, 2015 - 10:13PM
” Best of all wishes to the couple”.
Where is the need for comments on this marriage or for that matter anybody’s marriage.
Why dwelling into personal life of Reham Khan? Stop this please, we don’t want to know how her marriage ended, it is her personal matter.
Jan 9, 2015 - 2:09AM
Couldn’t she have done better than a man who is old enough to be her father?
Yellow Journalism
ET is always full of personal details about people that are totally out of the blue and almost always FALSE !
Imran Khan must show where he got the dowry money of Rs.82000 from !!!!!! Declare your assassey !!
waj
Jan 9, 2015 - 10:30AM
ET is going by the credo.. anything goes
“currently resides in Rawalpindi with her mother”? not in bani gala?
if Jemima marries Reham’s brother, and their children marry Imran and Reham’s children, it would be SO WIERD for imran amd jemima’s children!
AMMAR Zehri
I am the first person who already knew about this marriage when Naya Pakistan First Dharna Was Start
Feriha
She’s soo very pretty masha’Allah! Whatever’s in the past is in the past. IK was also criticized for his lifestyle choices before but is there a better leader for this country? No. They are both genuine people, who were destined to come together! I’ve never been so happy for someone’s marriage in my life as happy I am about their’s. Good wishes for them.
god bless the couple.things happened in one’s life is part of his/her life.
God bless the copleRecommend
Good jobRecommend
Jan 16, 2015 - 3:54PM
Reham is a woman of substance. A great combo of beauty with brains. She also have had ups and downs in her life but she fought through it. Shes a perfect match for Imran Khan.
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Councilperson Strassburger Introduces Legislation to Combat Pregnancy Discrimination
Today, Pittsburgh City Councilperson Erika Strassburger announced the introduction of legislation to safeguard employment protections for pregnant employees, individuals seeking to become pregnant, and their partners. In addition, the City of Pittsburgh’s Commission on Human Relations released an accompanying Guidance Document to empower employers to take steps to prevent discrimination based on pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions and events.
Strassburger’s Statement
“Employees should not be forced to choose between their livelihood and their reproductive decisions. My legislation ensures that pregnant workers, regardless of whether they work in a corporate office, a retail store, or a warehouse, can work in a safe and comfortable environment, attend medical appointments, and sustain a healthy pregnancy without fear of losing their job or benefits,” said Councilperson Strassburger. “I encourage employers citywide to review the Guidance Document to help prevent pregnancy-based discrimination from ever occurring.”
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Councilperson Strassburger’s legislation would explicitly prohibit employment discrimination against pregnant individuals, those seeking to become pregnant, and their partners before, during, and after the nine-month gestation period and after childbirth. This change to the City Code may require employers to provide reasonable modifications to employees’ workspaces and offer justifiable flexibility in scheduling to allow employees and their partners to attend procedures, tests, and other appointments associated with pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions. A copy of the legislation is available here.
With this change, Pittsburgh would become one of the first jurisdictions nationwide to clearly safeguard employment protections for the partners of pregnant employees. Additionally, the legislation would make Pittsburgh one of few cities to guarantee employment protections for related events that occur before, during, and after gestation and after childbirth.
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Trying Together 2019-2020 Public Policy Agenda Released
Trying Together is pleased to announce the release of its 2019-2020 Public Policy Agenda. The objectives listed build upon our successes and expand to include new areas of focus.
The 2017-2018 agenda called for several action items which were positively advanced in the past two years. While there is still work to do, Trying Together helped to achieve several key accomplishments in support of these goals including:
Advance the use of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP).
released a Kindergarten Transition white paper;
formed a Recess Advocacy Team in partnership with the playful Pittsburgh Collaborative to elevate the importance of free play and promote recess best practices for children in pre-k through sixth grade;
released a DAP white paper and guide for parents;
hosted a DAP webinar;
developed custom professional development on DAP for early childhood professionals;
and presented information on the role of DAP to an assembly of school superintendents.
End early childhood suspensions and expulsions*:
released a white paper and guide for families;
hosted a lunch and learn with the Remake Learning Council;
presented at The Early Childhood Education Summit in 2017 and 2018;
and sits on the state workgroup in Pennsylvania
*Notably, Pittsburgh Public Schools ruled in 2017 that suspensions and expulsions for minor, non-violent infractions for K-2 students would be ended, after which Philadelphia followed. Additionally, The Office of Child Development and Early Learning (OCDEL) released a policy announcement and provided resources on how to do reduce suspensions and expulsions.
Increase access to high-quality pre-kindergarten (pre-k) programs.
partnered on the Pre-K for PA campaign which successfully advocated for an increased investment of $55 million dollars in the 2017-18 and 2018-19 budgets collectively.
Increase access to high-quality infant toddler care.
successfully advocated for an increased investment of $26.8 million dollars in child care services as of the 2018-19 budget;
and convened and partnered on a workgroup to launch the Start Strong PA campaign in January 2019 to advocate for high-quality child care for infants and toddlers.
Transform the early childhood profession.
provided several dozen Level 1 Teachers their Induction program;
hosted the ECE Advocacy Fellowship for more than 20 early childhood professional;
and successfully updated language state statute and regulations to use the term ‘child care’ instead of ‘day care’.
Leverage resources and partnerships.
has continued its partnership with the CREATE Lab at Carnegie Mellon University to provide professional development to 1,000 early care and education professionals who utilize the Message From Me digital tool, allowing 20,000 children to consistently communicate about their day with caregivers. In 2019, we, along with our partners, will develop an Advisory Board to bring this to PNC markets nationwide;
and partners with the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania and the Allegheny Intermediate Unit (AIU3) to lead the Hi5! Kindergarten Readiness and Registration campaign – working with nearly all 43 school districts in Allegheny County to facilitate roundtables and networking for best practices in supporting young children as they transition into kindergarten.
As a leading advocate for high-quality early childhood care and education in Pennsylvania, Trying Together educates and engages regularly with policymakers on access, affordability, and quality policies that affect the lives of children, families, and professionals throughout the state. Partnering with education, government, business, nonprofit, and philanthropic stakeholders, Trying Together advocates for public policy changes throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania, with an emphasis in the City of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Visit tryingtogether.org to view the full 2019-2020 Public Policy Agenda.
Advocates are invited to sign on support for the 2019-2020 Trying Together Public Policy Agenda at tryingtogether.org to begin engaging their legislators today.
Community Check-Up Staff Interview
Every Monday from 1:00 – 5:00 pm, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Lydia Strickhouser performs a wide array of services for children and young adults ages birth to 21 years old at the Homewood-Brushton Family Support Center as part of Community Check-Up.
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First, tell us more about Community Check-Up and your roles within it.
Lydia: Community Check-Up has been going on since October 2017. On average, we see five to seven patients each Monday afternoon, and eight is the maximum. Technically, children only need to be seen once per year for check-ups, but families can come as often as needed. We offer follow-up appointments for specific concerns like weight or blood pressure checks. It’s really about the needs of the patient. In addition to seeing patients for all the different types of appointments, I also work with them in social and behavioral health as well. A lot of research shows how the social disparities a person faces significantly influence people’s physical and mental health, so it’s important that I assess each family’s needs in a comprehensive way. This includes making sure they have adequate food and asking about other concerns like employment and child care. All of these factors affect their outcomes.
Lisa: Having this clinic in the heart of Homewood helps minimize transportation as a potential barrier. Some of our families who come in live within walking distance, and the Center provides transportation services for those who need help getting to the appointments. My goal at the Center is to support the parents in bringing their children to appointments. Community Check-Up started as an initiative to decrease the no-show rate of Homewood children at doctor’s appointments by bringing services closer to them, and it has been much more convenient for the families. On top of scheduling the appointments and doing outreach in the community, my job is to look out for certain things. Parents and children both have needs, and I work to assess them and connect families with the necessary resources.
What was your first impression of the Center?
Lydia: I hadn’t realized that the Center would be a house. I assumed the building would be more square and colder, but because it’s a house, it’s like you’re walking into someone’s home. The environment is open, warm, and inviting, and it’s helpful to be able to give patients care in this type of environment. I got into this position because of my work in community health. The previous doctor moved out of state, so I was approached about working here, and I fell in love.
Lisa: I found out about Community Check-Up when I was called about my son’s doctor’s appointment and asked if it would be helpful to bring him here instead of the Oakland location. My uncle used to live in this house before it became a family support center. I was excited to take this position because as a parent, I know how much of a difference having these services in Homewood has made for me, and I want to share that with other families here in the community. Getting to the Oakland location was difficult to manage with my son’s school schedule and transportation difficulties. I had to take two buses to get there. I understand how hard it can be to get your children to their doctor’s appointments and how easy it can be to fall behind on immunizations. Working here at the center as a community peer advocate gave me the ability to help parents with the same areas that were difficult for me.
What can caregivers and children expect when coming to Community Check-Up?
Lisa: Respect, comfortability, and a warm environment. We are interested in the parents’ and their children’s wellbeing, so we work with them to uncover their needs and any things that may hinder them from getting to the appointments, such as issues with housing, food, and water. We ask what we can do to help, and we are genuinely concerned about them. It’s more than just a check-up.
Lydia: In addition to asking social questions about each family and getting the forms and consents we need, we also have normal conversations with the parents. We are careful to not be accusatory, but instead, we are supportive in gauging situations so that families get the best help.
How have the families impacted you?
Lydia: Working with the families has changed how I ask questions and encouraged me to show more understanding when parents don’t get their children to appointments. Also, I have become more realistic in my tests and referrals, and my approach to medicine in general. I can order 50 tests and make 10 referrals, but maybe this patient can only do one of each. Again, social disparities are so important in determining health and behavioral outcomes. Through this role, I’ve learned to be sensitive while still getting an honest answer.
Lisa: Working here has helped me learn how to approach families, especially those headed by single parents. As we mentioned before, it’s important not to be accusatory towards parents who need support. People are so quick to judge situations they know nothing about, and we shouldn’t be one of those people. I’ve learned that you never know what a person is dealing with, so I have made it a point to be more understanding, more patient, and more helpful. This role has made me want to help people as much as I can.
What do you find most satisfying about your interactions with families? What is most challenging?
Lisa: The most satisfying part of my job is seeing results and seeing them show up. Nothing makes me happier than them showing up. There are chaotic days when everyone is here at once, and there are children everywhere, but I love that. We have really mannerable kids here. The most challenging part is wanting to satisfy the parents and families, and making sure they have everything they need. The most important part of getting to know the families is building trust and comfortability. We have to establish communication that is open and long. When I call parents, I do more than just remind them of their appointment I feel good when they open up to me and feel safe enough to tell me what’s going on, and I am proud of being available to help them and give them feedback.
Lydia: Watching the children’s growth and development is the reason I got into pediatrics in the first place. It’s neat to see how much the kids progress, especially the little ones three and under, who come in more often, every two to three months. I love getting to talk to the kids individually, finding out their goals, seeing them get taller, and asking them about school. The most challenging part for me is the amount of paperwork and charting that I have to do. It’s important to me to maintain relationships with the families and not focus solely on the computer. Usually, I will put in four hours of work before coming in and three to four hours afterward. It’s a full day, but it allows me to focus on the parents and kids while they are here.
Are there any changes you see in the parents as they come back with their kids for appointments?
Lydia: Sometimes parents get more relaxed after a while. It’s nice to see their comfort and familiarity with Lisa and me. The kids love the toys, and it’s a very friendly environment.
Lisa: I noticed that a couple of parents who used to miss appointments with their child are on it now. The consistency has grown.
Is there anything else that you want the families to know?
Lydia: Just that we’re here, 1:00-5:00 p.m. You can show up just to talk if you need to. Though we need to know ahead of time to prepare for appointments, I am able to talk to you about any concerns you have or to look up immunization records if needed.
PA Board of Education Hosting Public Hearing in Homestead
The Pennsylvania State Board of Education will conduct a public hearing in Homestead on April 23, 2019 to receive input from interested parties on draft proposed amendments to Chapter 49 (Certification of Professional Personnel).
Current Chapter 49 Regulations.
Testimony Limitations
Testimony is limited to no more than 5 minutes, and participants will be assigned a time slot on a first come, first served basis when they register. If a hearing site reaches capacity, the Board will place interested participants on a waiting list and will notify members of the waiting list if space becomes available. Each hearing will conclude after the last scheduled witness testifies.
Those registered to testify must provide 25 copies of their written testimony at the hearing.
Persons interested in presenting testimony must register with the Board office at ra-stateboardofed@pa.gov or (717) 787-3787, Monday through Friday (excluding holidays) between 8:30 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. Registrations must be submitted no later than April 18 at noon.
Registrations submitted via email must include your name, affiliation, phone number, email address, and the date and location of the hearing in which you would like to participate.
Individuals with disabilities who wish to attend a hearing and require an auxiliary aid, service, or other accommodation to participate should contact Jenna DeNoyelles, ADA Coordinator, at (717) 783-9338 to discuss how the Board may best accommodate their needs.
Persons with disabilities are invited to submit public comments in alternative formats such as Braille or taped testimony and by means of the telephone. Written and alternative formats of public comment will be afforded the same thoughtful consideration as oral remarks.
Not Able to Attend?
Individuals unable to attend the hearing may submit written testimony directly to the Board on or before April 24, 2019. Written comments should be sent to:
State Board of Education
333 Market Street, 1st Floor
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Read the full notice.
Response to Governor Wolf’s Budget Proposal
On Tuesday, February 5, Governor Tom Wolf presented his fiscal year 2019-20 budget proposal. In highlighting his plan to make the Pennsylvania workforce the strongest in the nation, he outlined several increases in early care and education programs, as well as his plans to spend over $101 million in federal child care funds. Governor Wolf’s proposal includes the following:
$15 million in federal funds to provide subsidized child care for 970 additional infants/toddlers in STAR 3 and 4 programs.
$10 million in federal funds to provide a 28 percent increase to tiered reimbursement rates for STAR 2, 3 and 4 providers for infant/toddler care.
$2 million in federal funds to support an “Early Childhood Career Pathways Initiative” for education, training and professional supports for an apprenticeship, or work-based learning model for professionals serving infants/toddlers in early care and education programs.
$74 million in federal funds to provide a rate increase for subsidized providers for an increase in the minimum wage to $12/hour.
Today only one-third of subsidized children are accessing high-quality STAR 3 and 4 care, 4,300 children are on the subsidy waiting list, with families waiting 88 days to access subsidies they need to work, 50 percent of child care staff are receiving public assistance and child care subsidy reimbursements do not cover the cost of quality care. Trying Together, along with nine partner advocacy organizations, launched a new advocacy campaign last week – Start Strong PA – to turn those numbers around and increase access to high-quality child care for families so their infants and toddlers can grow, learn and succeed.
We are pleased to see the federal spending plan includes a waiting list initiative to serve more infants/toddlers in high-quality care and an increase in tiered reimbursement that will provide further program stability and consistency in teacher:child relationships. These are proposals for which we and partners advocated and align with our goals. We also believe the “career pathways” initiative will help to attract and retain talented early care and education teachers, another hallmark of the campaign.
Trying Together looks forward to learning more about Governor Wolf’s minimum wage proposal’s impact on the professionals in our field and the programs in which they work. While we appreciate the allocation of these critical federal dollars and again thank our federal delegation for strong, bipartisan support for high-quality child care, we are concerned with the lack of new state investments in this area.
$40 million for the Pre-K Counts program
$10 million for the Head Start Supplemental Assistance Program
This expansion would serve 5,500 additional young children.
Today the commonwealth ranks 18th of the 30 states investing in high-quality, publicly-funded pre-k and with this investment 100,000 children still lack access. As a leading partner in the Pre-K for PA campaign, Trying Together is advocating that lawmakers fully-fund Governor Wolf’s proposal.
Evidence-Based Home Visiting
In addition, the budget proposal includes a $5 million investment in evidence-based home visiting programs to expand home visiting for 800 eligible families.
For more information on home visiting advocacy efforts go to www.childhoodbeginsathome.org.
Evidence-Based Early Intervention
There is a $15 million state funding increase proposed in the Department of Education budget and a $9.75 million increase in the Department of Human Services (DHS) budget for Early Intervention to continue to support the cost of children receiving services.
Trying Together commends Governor Wolf for his continued commitment to early care and education programs in the commonwealth and encourages a state investment be made in high-quality child care so we can provide children with the educational foundation they all deserve. We will advocate for these investments as the budget process continues. Stay up-to-date on how to advocate for these issues by signing-up to support Trying Together’s public policy agenda here.
Registration Open for 2019 UnConference
In today’s digital world, learning has found new paths with the advanced development of media and technology. There is a lot of the excitement about the power of technology for learning with a focus on apps and games, but what do we really know about the effectiveness of media and technology on young children? How are they spending their time? And, even with lots of tech, what are low tech (or maybe even no tech) ideas that help children create and develop critical 21st century skills? Simply, what is age-appropriate?
In partnership with Carlow University and Avonworth Primary Center, join us Saturday, March 30, 2019 from 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at Avonworth Primary Center for a day of professional development and explore how we, as early childhood educators, after-school providers, and families can harness the good that comes from the advances made in media and technology for young children. The day features Jennifer Ehehalt, Pittsburgh Regional Manager at Common Sense Media, highlighting the findings in their research report The Common Sense Census: Media Use by Kids Age Zero to Eight, along with a panel discussion and audience Q&A. Then, attendees will participate in a hands-on workshop and an open session to interact with various displays, technology and media. After you register, we will email you for your workshop preferences.
Register now to reserve your space! When the workshops are finalized, you will receive an email from Yu-Ling to select your preferred workshops. We will do our best to place you in your requested workshop, but this is not guaranteed. There is limited space in each workshop and workshop placement is based on the date of your registration, so we recommend you register early. Please register by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, 2019. For groups of six or more people, there is a 10% discount. Please email Yu-Ling at conference@tryingtogether.org for more information. To learn more about this event, visit this link.
NAEYC Offering Scholarships for Emerging Leaders
NAEYC will offer six scholarships to individuals who can demonstrate their potential as emerging leaders in early childhood education.
2019 NAEYC Professional Learning Institute
This competitive application process is open to current NAEYC members. Those awarded will receive complimentary registration, hotel accommodations, and a travel stipend (travel provided only within the United States) for the 2019 Professional Learning Institute. Previous scholarship recipients are not eligible to apply. The deadline for submitting an application is March 15, 2019. To learn more and apply, visit the NAEYC website.
Start Strong PA Encouraged by Calls for Increased State Investments
Start Strong PA observed the 2019-20 PA budget as an important down payment to ensure all infants and toddlers learn, grow, and succeed. The following statement was issued by the ten principal partners leading Start Strong PA, a campaign to ensure that children across the state can access affordable, high-quality child care programs during the most critical period of brain development, the first three years of life:
Statement on the Budget
“We are pleased Governor Wolf’s budget provides a plan for spending $101 million in federal child care dollars that will help Pennsylvania families who need high-quality child care for their children to thrive. Given the essential role that high-quality child care has to support Pennsylvania’s working families, we urge Pennsylvania policymakers to explore all options to allocate additional state resources to address the critical needs of our state’s early childhood system that limit access and affordability.
Two elements of Governor Wolf’s budget proposal closely align with the campaign’s goals, including: a $15 million allocation to remove approximately 970 infants and toddlers from the subsidy waitlist and move them into programs that will elevate their potential; and a roughly $10 million allocation that will help to reinforce program stability and consistent staff-child relationships by increasing quality add-on rates for infants and toddlers by 28% for STAR 2, 3, and 4 programs.
In addition, the Governor’s proposal includes a $2 million allocation to support early childhood career pathways which acknowledges that children develop best when they have consistent teachers and relationships. The campaign believes this proposal will begin to address the significant need to attract and retain additional talented adults to become early childhood educators. Furthermore, an allocation of approximately $74 million would increase rates to support the move to a $12 per hour minimum wage in Pennsylvania.
The Governor’s proposals use federal Child Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) dollars. Start Strong PA campaign partners believe that these increased investments demonstrate the bipartisan support for ensuring our youngest children have what they need to thrive, while supporting the needs of our state’s workforce and education systems.” The Governor acknowledged the dual role of high-quality child care for children and families by saying, “We can get more kids off of waiting lists…and help more parents make their way into the workforce. Pennsylvania’s children deserve every chance to succeed.”
Reaction to the Governor’s Address
The importance of quality child care to the Commonwealth’s workforce was also raised by Senator Joe Scarnati in his reaction to the Governor’s address saying, “we have to focus on the families and we have to focus on their problems that stop them from getting to work.” Start Strong PA is urging the Pennsylvania General Assembly to build on the proposed federal allocations, and invest additional state dollars to support the positive brain development of all infants and toddlers by addressing access and affordability issues.
What Does Start Strong PA Support?
Specifically, Start Strong PA supports:
1. Increased reimbursement rates for the highest quality STAR 3 and 4 programs serving infants and
toddlers to the full cost of quality;
2. Increased investments to support more STAR 2 providers to move to STAR 3 and 4 thereby increasing
high-quality capacity;
3. Increased investments in the child care workforce by adding slots for Rising STARS Tuition
Assistance and T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood® Scholarships, fully funding Education and Retention
Awards, and conducting a child care labor market survey.
“Our state is at a critical moment for determining the future of infants and toddlers in Pennsylvania. Legislators must build on last year’s momentum that acknowledges the role of state funds in our early childhood system. We call on legislators to use this year’s state budget to foster a better future for all children by providing them a solid educational foundation through access to high-quality child care that their families can afford.”
Budget Details
The 2019-20 proposed budget includes the following expanded investments to early learning:
● Allocation of $101 million in federal child care funds;
● Increase in Pre-K Counts investment: $40 million;
● Increase in Head Start Supplemental Assistance Program investment: $10 million;
● Increase in state funds for evidence-based home visiting: $5 million.
Start Strong PA is an initiative of Early Learning PA (ELPA), a statewide coalition of advocates focused on supporting young Pennsylvanians birth to age five (5). ELPA also advocates for expanding publicly funded Home Visiting services via the Childhood Begins at Home Campaign and access to high-quality, publicly funded pre-k for income eligible children via the Pre-K for PA Campaign.
What is Start Strong PA?
Start Strong PA is an initiative of Early Learning PA. Through a statewide collaboration of partners, Start Strong PA aims to support healthy child development, working families, and the economy by increasing access to and affordability of high-quality child care programs for young children. Learn more at www.startstrongpa.org
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Pittsburgh Launching New Book Gifting Program
With support from The Benter Foundation, Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto’s administration plans to launch a free book program for children from birth to age five. Tomorrow, Pittsburgh City Council will introduce legislation to accept $250,000 from the foundation, introducing Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program to the city. Since starting in 1995, this program has sent more than 113 million books for free, to children in the United States, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
The Role That Access Plays
Studies of the Imagination Library have discovered:
Parents believed their children were more interested in reading when receiving the books every month
Parents read aloud to their children more often
Children were excited when books arrived in their name
Positive views of the program transcended demographics and longer participation provided better outcomes
The City’s Role
The Imagination Library covers overhead costs, databases, monthly mailings, and a book selection committee. The City of Pittsburgh, as an affiliate of the Imagination Library, would cover the ongoing costs for mailing each book every month, as well as enrollment and promotional activities.
Once funding is approved, outreach and communication plans will be launched, as well as engaging with local organizations that work with young children and families.
Quotes from the Partnership
Tiffini Simoneaux, manager of the City’s Office of Early Childhood in Mayor Peduto’s Bureau of Neighborhood Empowerment:
“Research shows that early literary experiences, including access to books in the home, are fundamental ingredients for academic success. This program will enable young children throughout the city to build a home library of up to 60 books.”
Bill Benter, president of The Benter Foundation:
“We’re pleased to partner with the City of Pittsburgh and other community allies to help children develop a lifelong love of reading. Having your own books at home unlocks a new world of learning and language that can help Pittsburgh’s children thrive.”
*Information provided by the City of Pittsburgh
Ask Congress to Increase Federal Child Care Funding
Trying Together and our partners are advocating for greater investments in federal child care funding, and we need your organization to join us.
Your voices helped achieve historic increases in funding for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) funds in federal fiscal years 2018 and 2019. We need to build off that success and advocate for increased discretionary CCDBG funding in the federal fiscal year 2020 so that we can continue to address unmet needs. Advocates across the country are asking Congress to increase CCDBG funding by $5 billion.
To accomplish this goal, the Budget Control Act caps on non-defense discretionary spending would need to be lifted to provide for such an increase in the Labor/Health and Human Services/Education appropriations bill.
The additional funding would help Pennsylvania children and families access and afford high-quality child care and further support child care programs and teachers. Trying Together, along with our partner early care and education advocacy organizations in Pennsylvania, is gathering signatures for a letter to our congressional delegation.
Sign-On Your Support
To support an increase in federal child care funding, sign your organization on to the letter by Wednesday, February 20th!
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PCMag UK | Reviews | First Looks | Review
Netgear ProSafe VPN Firewall FVS328NA
byLarry Seltzer Jun 11, 2015
Netgear Inc., www.netgear.com
$278 list
Basic network connections and firewall are easy to configure.
Cost of software may dwarf prices of router. Complex VPN configuration.
Though the FVS328NA has a lot to offer, its daunting configuration may keep some at bay.
At first glance, the Netgear ProSafe VPN Firewall FVS328NA looks like a steal. At $278 list (and as low as $180 street) it's a fraction of the price of other products that support up to 50 VPN tunnels... Click here to read the .
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At first glance, the Netgear ProSafe VPN Firewall FVS328NA looks like a steal. At $278 list (and as low as $180 street) it's a fraction of the price of other products that support up to 50 VPN tunnels. It even comes with a serial port that can be used for dial-up or ISDN fail-over in case you lose your broadband connection. But the company charges separately for its VPN client software, which is based on the Safenet client. With a list price of $62 per seat (or $209 for a five-user license), the cost of client software could quickly come to dwarf the cost of the router itself.
We also found the complexity of VPN configuration with the Netgear unit such that it requires a consultant not only for setup but for routine maintenance. A simpler VPN wizard, already available in other Netgear units, is on the way for this one. If your needs are for remote users connecting over secure tunnels to the network, this entry is affordable but may not be worth the hassle.
If, on the other hand, you need to set up a secure WAN link between two networks, the FVS328NA is dirt cheap and not quite so terrible to manage. The instructions are complex, but such connections don't often need maintenance once they are functioning.
Unlike the Safe@Office, there's no real concept of user management on the FVS328NA. To have separate management of users, you need to create a different VPN profile for each user, with each having a certificate or shared key. Once again, this is tough sledding.
The non-VPN functions on the router are much more appealing. It comes with eight built-in WAN ports and theoretically can handle up to 253 users. Configuring the basic network connections and the firewall is quite simple. Port rules are well designed, and Netgear includes definitions of a fair selection of predefined services (such as AOL Instant Messenger on port 5190) for you to manage. Adding other services to the list is trivial.
The general layout of the configuration software, accessible through a Web browser, is well thought out. Three vertical frames contain a list of general functions, the main configuration options for the selected function, and help for that function. Several times we were gratified to find help right there when we needed it. Another bright spot: Updates to the firmware are included for the life of the product.
All told, the FVS328NA has a lot to offer. Too bad the daunting configuration will keep a lot of small-business managers at bay.
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Larry Seltzer has been writing software for and English about computers ever since—much to his own amazement—he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.
He was one of the authors of NPL and NPL-R, fourth-generation languages for microcomputers by the now-defunct DeskTop Software Corporation. (Larry is sad to find absolutely no hits on any of these +products on Google.) His work at Desktop Software included programming the UCSD p-System, a virtual machine-based operating system with portable binaries that pre-dated Java by more than 10 years.
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Don't Fall for This Email Sextortion Scam
By Michael Kan
11 Oct 2018, 10:59 p.m.
A new sextortion scam has been hitting millions of email inboxes. In the messages, the hackers claim to have taken over your computer and recorded you watching porn, with plans to release the footage unless you pay up. But the threat is a sham.
A classic porn scam is making the rounds again, so make sure you don't fall for it.
Hackers have been flooding inboxes across the world with messages that claim to have taken over your computer and filmed you watching porn. Pay up (in Bitcoin, naturally) or your adult video-watching habits will be made public, the messages say. Before you have a heart attack, though, know that it's all a ruse.
Millions of emails were sent to recipients last month in a variety of languages including English, French, Japanese and Arabic, according to security researchers at IBM.
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In the messages, the hacker claims to have installed a "RAT" or remote access Trojan on the recipient's computer. "I posted my virus on porn site, and then you installed it on your Operation System [sic]," the message will read. "After installation, your front camera shoots video every time you masturbate."
The email then contains a threat: pay up or the video will be sent to all your friends and colleagues. The messages demand that you send between $250 and $550 in Bitcoin to a digital wallet.
The crooks don't actually have access to your computer, nor do they have any idea if you watch porn. The hackers are simply trying to scare you into giving into their extortion demand, IBM's research report said.
Unfortunately, the ploy appears to be working. IBM's security researchers examined some of the emails, and collected over 500 Bitcoin wallet addresses. Twenty of those wallets now hold over $50,000 in Bitcoin.
"Like other phishing and social engineering scams, it is often a numbers game," IBM researchers said. Only a few victims need to fall for the scheme to make it worthwhile.
So who might be behind the extortion scheme? IBM researchers point to the notorious Necurs botnet, which has been around since 2012, and according to security researchers, is available for rent to cybercriminals who use it to spread ransomware, banking Trojans, and spam email. At least a million infected computers are believed to be part of the botnet.
The scam is a reminder to carefully scrutinize incoming email. Another variation of the scam claims to have caught the email recipient having an extramarital affair. Security journalist Brian Krebs also documented a similar "sextortion" email scheme in July. However, the hackers tried to lend the threat some added credibility by including an old password the email recipient once used.
"Put simply, you should always avoid opening unsolicited email. This can minimize the opportunity to fall for a social engineering scam," IBM researchers said. To further protect yourself, consider covering your computer's webcam when it's not in use.
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Hello and welcome to the media Show podcast in the last few hours the BBC has announced.
It will not appeal the judgement of the High Court that the corporations coverage of a police raid on Sir Cliff Richard violated his privacy.
Where does this leave journalism and indeed the senior figures at the BBC who's errors led to this expensive failure that sell subject at the top of the show but will also be roaming through America where new TV a 1 billion dollar venture Ventura adventure.
There's a bit of both is there trying to outsmart Netflix and Wear tomorrow more than 100 American newspapers are expected to launch an unprecedented counterblast to the president who is habitually denigrated them as enemies of the people in Australia today Daniel got her senior analyst at analysis and Jim Waterson the media editor at the Guardian welcome to you both and I don't get straight into our top stories BBC has as they say today decided not to fight a verdict in the High Court last month we said it is breached the privacy of Sir Cliff Richard the case concerned a raid by sassy.
Watch a police on the singer's home in August 2014 the BBC's coverage which is notoriously included deployment of a helicopter was found to be legally unjustified and in his ruling Mr Justice Mann raise a number of questions about the Freedom of journalists in particular where the suspects could be named before being charged yet today the BBC is decided based on that legal advice not to appeal further but here's what Fran Unsworth the director of news and current affairs said outside the High Court last month the judge has also made clear that even if the very naming of Sir Cliff would have been unlawful.
This creates a significant shift against press freedom this means police investigations and searches of people's homes could go unreported and unscrew tonight.
It will put decision-making about naming individuals in the hands of the police over the public's right to know we don't believe this is compatible with a liberty and Press freedoms for all of these reasons there is an important principle at stake that is why the BBC is looking at an appeal and some of you will remember the BBC's former director general Mark Thompson came on this ratio on the day of the judgement is what he said at the time.
I think it's a really troubling ruling today.
There's no question.
I think it in retrospect that some of the ways which the story was covered at the time.
They had a cotton rest were over the top and wrong but the judges if I understood correctly says that even today even in principle to name Cliff Richard was unlawful and I think that's really troubling.
I think if it if it survives appeal is potentially a real chilling of the ability of the press to report things which in my view are in the public interest well.
Well and you.
Today's BBC is decided against appealing instead director-general Tony Hall has written to the attorney general asking him to consider a review of the law so that politicians and not judges make decisions about the proper limits of privacy even though it's not actually clear that the attorney general thinks this Falls within his remit David Jordan the director of Ella smokes in the Stooges I say that for merging Watson David Jordan easy director of editorial policy at the BBC and he's with me out in the studio David what is the BBC buckled well we've taken some time to look in depth and at length at what the implications of going to appeal would be because as you've heard from Fran Unsworth Andrew Mark Thompson we were very concerned and remain concerned about the principle that was established in this judgement and we would very much like to be not to appeal the principal but all the advice that we're getting is that you have to take the entire judgement to appeal not simply the bits at you want to and that the prospects of 6.
And getting what we wanted out of it were very limited and therefore reluctantly with concluded that it would not be a good the extra expense to the licence fee paid to go further in this case and fight it further even though we'd be very much still disagree with the extension of the law that the judgement are enabled.
How much will the appeal of crossed I don't know how much it will cost but you know as I know already that the total cost of the case so far to the BBC has been 1.9 million pounds and that's a lot of money is had a record and I've no idea was it to record labels off of other things but maybe to lover there is a lot of money with the previous massive expenditure.
I think it'd be with the public would be interested to record for and the figure is a large figure and the important point is that going to law in this country cost a lot of money.
I'm going to appeal when you would have no certainty of success would cost of further amount of money and it's in that context that we.
Decision that we have shouldn't you actually just checked with the attorney general at this Falls within the remit before Tony who wrote a letter to him.
I think it's surprising that the person who is charged with advising the government on the law thinks that advising the government law has got nothing to do with him and the previous attorney general had had indicated at previous stages that he had made comments about this so it's a surprise, but just to be sure we've also send a letter to the dcms onto the Home Office someone must be somebody who's responsible for this is an issue which is which should not be set by judges making decisions of this sword and should be should be debated and agreed by the government by parliament and that's the point the Essential point the we're making it's not the question the major point is not who decides but that it should be the government and parliament and politician since I rather than judges actually have any evidence that writing to the attorney general will make any sudden Impact at all and we've written a letter.
The attorney general V attorney-general through one of its comms officer who can be patient officer said I'm not sure this Falls within the remit that's a pretty weird.
Look for a director general to take us know.
I think what we doing is racing a very important question which I think the whole Media will be interested in because this is a dip this has implications not just for the BBC but for everybody who's in is interested and reporting important cases, which are under police investigation and so the whole Media will take an interest in whether or not the government will want to review This aspect of the law and make some determination about it rather than having the law inched forward or changed in the way that the judgement of Justice man has changed you know as well as I do that a huge amount of legal opinion before you add cider Fighters case said that BBC World News how and why did the BBC managed to find pretty much the only door in the land he thought fighting his case was worthwhile.
I think you must been talking to different people from the.
What a lawyer is not a Jealous photos and they all said this is a bad thing to fight and
The BBC 41.9 million lbs later you've lost a lot of journalists and Edmund leader writers were urging us to appeal the decision rather than saying that it was mad Foster fight that I've got skin in the game got skin in the game because they want to bring information to the attention of the public in exactly the same way as the BBC does that seems to be to be a noble ambition and it's also important that in the sorts of cases, they were talking about particularly sexual abuse case not this wear Revealing the name of somebody under Suspicion has in the past lead to further victims coming forward and making allegations that these sorts think should be able to be probably tonight this case is cost 1.9 million pounds of pot of money so far.
There's a cost hearing coming up so it could go over 2 million might be record.
You don't know why isn't anyone resigned of this.
I don't think the answer to every single problem that you are a car in journalism or anywhere else is for the big one that somebody was like what you've got to remember the context you were kind enough to mention in your introduction that this will happen in 2014 your recorded around that time a number.
Senior figures in the entertainment industry will being found guilty of sexual offences of one sort or another so the fact that another major figure in the entertainment industry was being investigated on that basis.
Seemed to us to be something that was very much in the public interest to report has anyone that still seems to us to be the case has anyone offer the resolution of this.
I'm not aware that anybody is off of the resignation, but nobody's resignations been asked for because the people as I was going to go on the same made the decisions that are made in the context of the law as it then existed the Goalposts of not be moved and of the mayday mayday adjustments in the in the best way to possibly could and in good faith that taken responsibility within Maestro stampy with it what you're really saying in effect in terms of its practical consequences, is it the BBC can make a disastrous editorial decision fighting lose a legal battle cost and 2 million pairs of public money and no one scene is taking responsibility for it and they put you up to talk about it mean why isn't Fran Unsworth of Tony all in the studio? Where does it happen to the most just returning from from from trips abroad but but
How to make this decision today because actually we run out of time by tomorrow the court of Appeal has got to be at either we take it to the calderfields that tomorrow we don't say that's just an incidental and incidental to the main case but is this the everybody in the BBC right up to and including the director-general takes responsibility, what happens when I was resigned to put on a crazy case as I said already.
It's not the answer to every problem to sack people to get people to resign ok this from Angela Haggerty and come back to the second if you if we can do with Angela Haggerty the columnist for the Sunday Herald and is in our Glasgow studio and Angela ataxia time Cliff Richard says beauty buses should carry the can do you agree? No, I'm a little bit concerned about and talking enough of people being sacked and resigned and all these things because I think it's a little bit of a mixed message from the BBC of the BBC actually um um I think it's a shame that you're not going to do this, but I think it was right that we did fight it and I think I have a good down the road of anything like that taken even more responsibility for 4.
What's going on here then? And it becomes so complicated? We're not even sure who's taking responsibility for what then I think that that's actually if you look at things from the bigger picture.
There are wider repercussions that affect Media in general that affect journalists across the country, so I think the BBC it in my reading of the of the conclusions that they come to this is not that they that they are stepping back and taking full responsibility and agreeing with with everything Cliff Richards representative saying in there, are they are perception of what's going on BBC you saying that there? Isn't think it could win the appeal but essentially still standby a lot of those principles about freedom of speech and freedom of expression so I think the BBC need to do really really trying to pull that is strongly as it can because I don't think actually that the public really understand the consequences of us and forgive her.
I will just to be clear fluid from your point mutagenesis as there is a reported as a columnist.
How will this warning affect the ability of during this to do.
A job seekers disastrous because it has a chilling effect when you have an issue like privacy when it specially if you have something that UK slow coming on it means that they can now be a lot of Grey areas that your nails will be fearful of of stepping into because they could be financial repercussions were talking about an industry right here that that has cut straight across the board year in year out big Media publishers are not as likely or keen to take on cases like this is he might once have been so I think that will have a drip down.
You know effect in The Newsroom I think that will see newspapers less likely to go after me to notice truck me yesterday.
I actually win them after Ben Stokes was was cleared of everfree The Cricketer in the statement.
That is same as his representative red outside the court.
There is a big part in that about the meteor any in this this idea seems to be formulating the telling the public that someone has been accused of a crime is the same as being the
What is the same as in Ferring Gill in the same thing so it was the name indication if it's something about series sex offences were that can have such a damaging your baby as they were not too much of the public would be with sea Cliff Richards point if you in there since he's been appallingly tarnished when he was an innocent man, but the court case in the way this is going is a think what you're going to see is people starting to invoke privacy on much less serious situations in this idea that even just to let the public know that people have been accused of a crime as some have a bit of privacy is very very dangerous in a democracy Justice needs to be seen to be done it needs to be open and I think that will they were really risk and chip in a way that another don't they really really think it's a shame because I don't think the public understand how this is actually bad for them or girls react to be from the Sun of her that thank you very much indeed for your time on what I know.
It's a busy day.
I bought some from the Guardian how badly damaged the b.
Sibo this affect more than anything.
It's embarrassed the court case was not a particularly pleasant experience in the executives involved in Sicily for any journalists.
You've ever sent some Chucky emails.
It was a reminder that you may one day season read out in court.
It's been left for the substantial Bill and most problematically and it is intriguing to see you push for a some of your buses to potentially be put on the chopping block but the fact that they are going to stick by the senior executives and instead go down the political roots and try and turn this into a major campaign is interesting and well.
I think there is a sense that the case was maybe we can the BBC thought it was there is a general industry-wide believe that this is a very very bad ruling for journalism in there is no probable Desire among editors to do something about this so we will probably see support for Tony holes position on this is papers and you sent it to them Jordan funny having spent millions of pounds of licence fee payers money and fighting a case that somebody Gill opinion thought unwinnable following editorial decision.
Why do Condemned by the media what steps do the BBC actually taken to make sure this doesn't happen again the organisation is taking a large number of steps to look at aspect like one of these things.
They're looking at the use of helicopters over curiously enough another one is that there? Is is that there was some comments may be the judge about the the right of reply in the in this case about the how much time was given to Clifton is it and it's representatives to respond so obviously we need to look at all these points of that nature that the judge made in in in his judgement and and change as our processes accordingly so there's a lot of work going on about to to interpret and make sure that we don't fall into these into these traps again to type of the judgement of make sure of that are that will happen, but we musn't lose sight as I think you're your two commentators.
Haven't done of the critical issue at stake here which is about whether you can I report police investigations and name Suspects in police Adventures and we haven't discussed one other aspect of it to which is the way in which the judge has it?
Standard all our privacy damages are in a way that privacy related to defamation and Eleanor based on reputation.
That's completely new law to and could have the same sort of chilling effect does Angela was mentioning in relation to the main judgement will be wonderful 24 fret Handsworth came on the show to discuss at David you and thank you very much indeed for your time and for coming on the show one then we have mentioned on the show as much as we might have is Jeffrey katzenberg.
He's the hugely influential Mogul and former chair of Disney and CEO of DreamWorks animation who's investment vehicle wonder co has paid hundreds of millions into Media Ventures around the world behind Meg Whitman the former CEO of eBay and Hewlett-Packard to run wonder coat.
He's not a pulled off his most audacious fundraising round yet securing $1000000 free start-up completely remarkable really cold new TV through startup in modern Media have attracted more buzz, but opinion is divided writing in Wired magazine yesterday journeys Felix salmon said it's probably going to fail Daniel Gallagher of ampere analysis and on the line, is it with me?
Turn on the line is Gary Epstein is the media editor of The Economist Danny with you first for what is new TV and will it work Sony TV is as you say it's it's a new start-up is better a billion in in funding so far and it's mobile centric content so it will be a platform akin to something like Netflix but it's going to focus on short form content and it's going to be just for mobiles only and that's what that's that's the direction that kattenberg women taking this billion-dollar startups lots of bubble territory and this live up to the hype but he was looking to raise 2 billion was an inside the 1 billion easy ways.
I think you mentioned this is 750 million has already been raised by the Holding Company undercoat and actually a lot of that is also being pushed into a new TV as well.
I'd like to say he did go that you tried to get 2 billion and I think pointing out the size of the investment and she's interested to come out from a different angle, if we look in terms of content spend.
We look at Netflix alone that they're putting forward 8 billion in terms of content Spencer actually when you look at it.
Content marketing spending money on producing this premium content which is exactly what they want to do just ensure to format actuator small amount so it's it's how that's going to translate how they're going to be able to produce this premium content as well and and at the scale at they want to go the Epstein from The Economist an immediate immediate some the beauties medium Epstein is The Economist Media give me the mod Freudian slip from Manhattan will new TV work Color Me skeptical.
I think he's good point or another speaker in the studio there about about Netflix spending 8 billion and continent is this doesn't seem like a lot back comparison, exit Netflix is spending 12 or 13 billion dollars a year and contents a crowded space where a tonne of companies are spending a lot of money to make content that they want people to pay for and then there is it?
Are freely available short form content and things like YouTube shared clips online to keep people have occupied on the go on their mobiles, so I'm not sure exactly where new TV fits you have a subscription services up the wazoo have like Netflix Amazon YouTube Disney's new service HBO is going to get bigger than you got all the other freely available stop on mobile ready.
I'm not sure exactly where are new TVs markets going to be I think that's the first time.
We've had the phrase up the wazoo on the media show and I'm very grateful for it and it's what your in effects saying Daddy I understand you that there is an element of subscription fatigue.
There are lots of other very good subscription services and the demand the appetite for punters for consumers customers to pay for a further 1 may be limited.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
I think you have you can easily wrap $100 a month and subscriptions to various video services and then you are so have you know whatever music service you using like Spotify or apple music.
So I would say and those folks offer also some short form video and will offer more apples is putting in at least a billion dollars so for about 1 4 minutes or so, I think there's a lot competition short form has not had a big moment yet where you're going to say it's a must-see TV that's what they say.
They're waiting for but there's no Assurance that new TV would be the one that provides Your House of Cards moment for a short form video if your phone video proves at work.
Why not Netflix or YouTube Amazon putting a little bit of there are many billions of dollars into that space.
Why wouldn't they? Why would they succeed ok Daniel god? It isn't the truth so cool old television services cable TV or proven quite commercially resilient actually there is still a huge amount of money in that to rain.
It's not like newspapers were the advertising is disappearing pretty fast from some places in their book to charge customers more actually had had dollars in the world of tea.
He still pretty resilience resilience of the research that we've done it and pears actually showing their alongside your pay-tv service and people actually stacking the social services on top so you know all their willies, so what are spiders? What is streaming online service like your Netflix is your Amazon's your hulu's and people stacking these on top of their you know normal pay TV services in in in in the UK in the last few quarters.
We've seen the naturally decline in the pay TV subscriptions.
Is it stopped and actually people that people are more likely now to be taking the service on top of of pip ADB services and bacteria.
Gary's point on Beano subscription fatigue another thing that we've seen his is Ashford stacking taking multiple services in the US it's actually around if you are a an owner of one of these services you actually more likely to have around 3 in the UK that's too so there is still room to grow people are building content and packaging themselves the content that they really interested in with her up the wazoo and S4 stack you if we do well.
But I'll be trying to think I get what is for stacking is Jim Wilson isn't isn't the interesting thing about new TV that basically everyone has always tried to crack mobile right.
You know from your time at buzz feed from working in newspapers now.
If you look at internet consumption mobile is the growth area we will try to make money at mobile but mobile has a certain problem which is an advert look small and they don't look very good and if you're doing short form TV content 10-minute watching a minute of an advert on mobile won't be so fun so cracking short form video on mobiles of pretty tough challenges in it.
I find it.
I find it absolutely baffling business is one because I don't really understand why when I see other people on their communities watching TV on their phones are streaming over 4G and what are they watching there watching the 10 minutes of that network Netflix programme they were finishing last night.
They're watching the first half of that thing on iPlayer that they want to finish when their home they put it on the big TV 172 the door, but while they're on the bus while they're on the Tube while on the train.
I'll be watching you know long from stuff and then attracted by quality than don't really mind what format is in as long.
I can stream it on any size device, so I don't really see I mean I'm very impressed at anyone is raising money for Media Ventures in this environment given almost everyone who's done an online startup in the media world recently has been desperately cutting jobs are trying to avoid going past so I think that's that that's the great success and if he can manage to last a few years doing this and produce something worthwhile long way, you only really need a few breakout things to make it work, but as the other gas to said I think this is a really important thing.
This is no longer a new thing this is not like when House of Cards launch.
Never went gosh to get this exciting you think you have to join something called Netflix and it's only available on your laptop people got used to their habits a form them already.
They've got the two or three in a very got two of the three subscriptions will now have for the rest of their life at least next 20 years anyways now keep with the new TV isn't actually a very new idea now.
We we should remember this is her his working size of a new TV there.
They will run out of the name and I think in the next couple of months in an anything goes to get 45% of 18 to 34 year olds at watching day.
Online video on on their smartphones it isn't it isn't new what the new Concepts could be it is trying to bring this premium aspect2i to spend in 0526 million per season on the on this content and bringing in the Talon from Hollywood and and that maybe workouts and burgers is positioning himself but again as we said that the content spend side and they spend that they're going to do on this type of content probably has to go up if they are to to to compete with her with the Netflix to the word Daniel Cardiff remember now.
Just thanks so much for a time today.
I let stay with America now because tomorrow over 100 newspapers national regional and local are coming together to jointly published coordinated editorials declaring Donald Trumps war in the media anti-democratic the Boston globe is coordinating the action arguing this dirty war in the Free Press must end well.
It's become Commonplace to Lament Trumps tax and media of course whether his deployment of the phrase fake news or to his tweeting at clips of wrestling Palace against CNN this is President Trump at a Campaign rally at Campaign rally, sorry.
the dishonest Media
Which has published 1/4 story after another?
With no sources even though they pretend they have them.
They may come up in many cases, they just don't want to report the truth and they've been calling us wrong now for 2 years.
They don't get it, but they're starting to get it.
I can tell you that will get the Epstein the immediate issue of The Economist is still with us from Manhattan and Gary newspaper subscriptions are up web traffic is up ratings for TV news is up shouldn't the media be thanking President Trump rather than lambasting in certainly trump has been helpful the business, but I think that you're seeing this reaction from it's gonna be back to 100 newspapers tomorrow that I have this editorial because trump has been obviously in a multi-year campaign against them in spin basically asymmetrical warfare it he's been wanting bounds of the press as a work for several sensors campaign is undermined faith in journalism.
He was attacked Every Story that's no good about em is fake news and draws.
Haven't like to make themselves the story so they've been sort of can have both hands tied behind their back in response and so I think it's kind of welcome to see how newspapers are stand up for themselves and and try and promote the idea of a free press exam would Sims people and actually I mean to what you sent item is actually prevented from doing a job in America that the protected by the First Amendment it's not like working as a journalist in Russia today or working in Myanmar today where there's a serious ritual safety isn't it's light element of actually this life isn't so bad.
If you are American Jonas right now and it's a pretty unpleasant place to be in to have that lack of faith in it.
I remember covering some the very early trump rallies while he was still going for the come and see out in the US and even then on the campaign trail standing at the back when he was hurling abuse of the media was quite experienced.
He felt very much under attack equally I do think the journalist sometimes like to elevate themselves somewhat and we have to be.
Set that there has been issues.
Where reporting is has taken place and there is a reason why sometimes the public trust the media has been threatened, so my my feeling is that basically Donald Trump has been very good for business, but we need to we need to really really think whether we want to start wrestling with a pig because I think as the saying goes you would you tend to end up being the one that comes off worse that's also the first hour for the phrase wrestling with the pigs out today.
Is it is it is a day for bed in practical terms in what should people during this actually do that mean their personal safety may at rallies as you say piece of impinging hurt, but what this is €200 right into it editorial.
I don't respect the Donald Trump is going to change but he does particularly might really support from the public but how to join us on a day-to-day basis.
Go about their business differently in the age of trump.
I'm afraid I'm quite tradition on this.
I think it's just to get your head down.
Do your job stick to the facts do the reporting stand up when he does falsehoods correct him when he's wrong attempt to make it clear but don't get into a personal Walkers there's no way you're going to win in a bully Inn
A game of bully vs.
Bully he's going to be the biggest one in the game and he's going to end up on top so the only thing you can really do to my mind is stick to core principles.
Don't overstate things don't understate things tell them as they are and try and get the truth out there.
Can you bring that you work for a New York liberal organ? Do you feel and attacks you feel that Donald Trump is corroding democracy British liver Oregon the New York branch in hi I do think I would want I want to respond to this point.
I do things really sore or actually just doing their job and whatever they're going to stay tomorrow is probably going to be just a statement of principles and rejection a very dangerous rhetoric about the present we can get to remember that just two months ago.
We had a shooting in Annapolis Maryland here.
Yes where I newspaper office was attacked in five people were killed the practical consequences talk about practical consequences.
I've run out of time.
Thank you very very much for your contribution and to gym at the David Jordan before that and indeed at Daniel Carter
Same time next week.
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Interview with David Laney, 2015 UltraRunner of the Year
By UltraRunning Magazine on 01/01/2016 Featured, Interviews
At age 27 you are the youngest Ultrarunner of the Year ever, dating back to 1981, how does it feel to earn this distinction?
So many guys have had a great year, I was really surprised to be voted the UROY. I’m really thankful for all the people who have helped me this year and in years past. Without encouragement from friends and family I would have stopped running long ago.
What drew you to ultrarunning?
I have been a runner since I was very young and as long as I can remember I always had dreams of heading to the trails and running 100 miles. But I thought that would be after a lot of road running. In the end I just headed to the trails much sooner than originally planned. Living in Ashland and working at Rogue Valley Runners, taking inspiration and guidance from Hal Koerner, Erik Skaggs and others, was a huge influence in heading to the trails and doing ultras.
Why do you think ultrarunning is becoming more popular among younger and faster runners?
There used to be a perception that running 100 miles would ruin your body and you would not be able to run fast again, so people went to ultras after a road career. I think young people are also realizing that the ultra/trail community is something special and they really enjoy being a part of it.
How did your upbringing and family influence your running?
I always loved running and was brought up spending a lot of time in the outdoors. My dad ran marathons and would take me on pretty long backpacking trips when I was very young. I was really competitive and always wanted to be faster than my older siblings. From a young age I learned that there is a lot of freedom in the mountains. Ultrarunning is perfect for me, I get to spend a lot of time running in big mountains.
Is there a person who has been a role model or inspiration for you in pursuing ultras?
Sir Ernest Shackleton – he was an amazing leader and could weather any storm, literally and figuratively.
How does ultrarunning fit into your lifestyle and your daily life?
Right now training and racing is a major priority and I have been able to fit my life around running. I realize that isn’t something I will be able to do my whole life, but for the time being I am able to focus on running.
Do you have advice for other young runners getting into ultrarunning?
I’m not a patient person at all, but I think when it comes to ultrarunning you have to just chill. There are major ups and major downs in this sport, if you can’t take a deep breath and deal with a disappointment or injury it’s going to be a rough road. Talking to people who have been in the sport and being a part of your local ultra community is important for anyone getting into the sport.
When you look back on the year, what is your most satisfying memory?
Working at Steens Mountain Running Camp is always a highlight of the year. Steens is a wilderness running camp in Southeast Oregon for high school age runners. It is amazing helping young runners do things they never imagined they could do. One of the days amounts to about 50k of hiking and running, at the end of the day the kids are totally obliterated but it’s all they talk about for the rest of the week. I attended Steens as a high schooler and it made a huge impact on my life and on my running career. I love going there now and being able to help young runners have a great trail running experience.
In terms of your races, which one do you think was your best?
I think Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc was probably the best race of the year. I moved into my car after Western States and spent the next two months training in big mountains all over the West Coast. I think spending that big chunk of time alone in the mountains made me really ready for the challenges of UTMB.
What was key to your first time success over there?
I treated UTMB more like a battle than a footrace. I understood the attrition of UTMB and how important the last 35 miles was. I think that focus along with a really good summer of training resulted in a successful race. I think rolling with the punches is vital on the UTMB course, keeping within yourself the first 100k is key to a successful race.
What is the biggest difference in the ultra scene over there?
The fans in Europe are pretty amazing. The fans hike up to remote sections of the course and are so excited. At UTMB we ran through many towns at night and people were lining the streets, standing around bon fires yelling and cheering at 2 in the morning. The excitement makes the experience really unforgettable.
Ultrarunning feels really grass roots in The States, and it typically has a low-key and friendly feel. In Europe it’s much more structured and developed. I really enjoy both experiences and I think as trail running becomes more popular in the US, structure and development will follow. I just hope it is able to keep its old school vibe.
What was your lowest point during the year?
The weeks following UTMB were really challenging. The comedown from a marathon is really tough. For me the comedown from a 100 is harder than the race. Your body and mind are pretty destroyed, I guess it takes a while to get them back in balance.
Have you had any major injuries?
Yeah I’ve had everything in my running career. Getting better takes time but the biggest challenge is just knowing that eventually the injury will heal, and you will enjoy running again.
What does your peak training look like for an ultra?
About 120-130 miles, with 10-15k feet of climbing, and a couple of hard workouts per week.
What is your favorite training run/location of all time?
Ansel Adams Wilderness, followed closely by The Wallowas in North East Oregon, and The Enchantments in Washington.
Are there keys to your training that keep you healthy and injury-free?
I foam roll daily, and do some light stretching but the whole thing takes about 10 minutes total.
What does your nutrition look like?
I would say I eat pretty…Liberally. I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables but I also don’t shy away from the top of the food pyramid. Needless to say, I rarely go a day without ice cream. My diet is dictated much more by what is on sale at the grocery store than the latest diet fad.
What is your favorite ultra distance and race, thus far in your career?
100 Miles. The spectrum of experiences in 100 miles is unrivaled. You get to a place in 100 miles that you only get to if you run 100. Western States is my favorite race, with UTMB a close second. Western States is a race I have been dreaming about since I was a little kid so it holds a lot of weight for me.
What is your take on the FKT phenomenon?
I think it is awesome. There are so many iconic trails in the US, I can’t wait to join in the FKT fun. I like people but I also understand the appeal of doing something really challenging alone. Many of these trails are also in areas that don’t allow races, but are so amazing they need to be experienced on foot.
You also are super fast at the marathon and qualified for the Olympic Trials – how do you compare road marathons with trail ultras?
Road marathons are super precise, exact, and take a really strict training schedule. Trail ultras allow a lot more flexibility. While there are really tough workouts when training for an ultra you get to enjoy a lot more long days in the mountains.
What is the culture of shorter road running like compared to ultras?
Ultrarunning can be a harsh sport, so you take care of each other on the trails and in the mountains. I think you form a closer relationship with runners of all abilities having run the same trail, and experienced the same challenges. Ultrarunners are unique people with common values that connect us, and I think we are all really lucky to have that community.
The road community is close at the top end, but as many marathons have thousands of runners it doesn’t have the same intimate feel.
Your marathon PR is 2.17 – what is your goal at the Trials?
My primary goal is to run 2:15:XX, but I really want to be in a competitive position with 10k to go.
What are your racing plans/goals in ultras for 2016?
Do everything I can to be ready for States and UTMB. Chuckanut was my first ultra and is probably one of my favorites so I’ll do that as well to kick the year off. I plan to improve on my 2015 performances at States and UTMB.
You are on the Nike ultra team – how has that experience been for you?
The Nike Trail Team has been great, it is an amazing group. I’m really lucky to have teammates that really care about each other. It is like a family reunion every time we go to races together. It’s a young group but I think we are all learning from each other and with each other.
How does Nike view ultrarunning?
Nike has a lot of roots in trail and ultra and the Nike folks are very excited to be back and involved with the sport. I think their involvement will continue to grow in an organic way.
How pervasive do you think PEDs are in ultrarunning?
In the United States I don’t think PED use is very prevalent in ultrarunning. The financial incentive in ultrarunning is so minimal I don’t think doping is a huge problem yet. I think as the sport develops and more money comes in, PED use will inevitably and unfortunately rise.
What do you think the sport should do about doping?
I think dopers should be banned from competition for life. There just isn’t the financial structure behind ultrarunning at this point to test or regulate substances. The state of sport in the US will likely change dramatically in the next decade.
When you aren’t training for or racing ultras, what do you do for fun?
Until recently I enjoyed riding my motorcycle in the hills around Southern Oregon, but as I sold it, I now longingly look at pictures of new motorcycles online. I really enjoy swimming in mountain lakes.
If you weren’t an ultrarunner, what would you be doing?
Hopefully I’d be building wooden boats, maybe canoes or small sailing boats. We had a canoe when I was a kid and always enjoyed paddling around Oregon lakes and rivers. Being on the water is similar to being in the mountains in that there is a lot of freedom in that environment.
What is your favorite media?
Book: Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Movie: Peter Pan. TV: The Office and Music: Ke$ha… AC/DC, The Kingston Trio, Led Zeppelin, Florida Georgia Line, John Denver, Michael Jackson…
What’s on your bucket list in ultrarunning?
Run the PCT. Mount Marathon. John Muir Trail. Mount Fuji. Tarawera.
Ok, here’s what everyone wants to ask – so Rob Krar has his beard and you have the ‘stache. Does it have a name?
Haha, I don’t really remember how it first started, but I think it will stay for a while.
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Riley Report: The Citadel’s 2013 baseball campaign begins (Part 2)
Posted on February 10, 2013 by Sandlapper Spike
This is Part 2 of a two-part preview of the upcoming season. For Part 1, click here: Link
Note: as I mentioned in Part 1, all statistics are for Southern Conference games only unless otherwise indicated.
This chart features the 2012 offensive statistics in league play for The Citadel’s returning players:
AB R HR BB K AVG OBP SLG OPS
Mason Davis 127 15 2 9 23 0.244 0.304 0.354 0.658
Joe Jackson 117 22 1 16 17 0.308 0.396 0.462 0.858
Bo Thompson 88 7 2 15 12 0.250 0.367 0.341 0.708
D. DeKerlegand 73 13 0 7 18 0.192 0.291 0.260 0.551
Bailey Rush 70 8 0 6 21 0.186 0.266 0.214 0.480
Tyler Griffin 68 8 1 10 26 0.118 0.238 0.250 0.488
Calvin Orth 55 5 1 1 10 0.291 0.298 0.400 0.698
H. Armstrong 50 5 0 6 7 0.220 0.304 0.300 0.604
J. Stokes 45 8 0 5 4 0.267 0.340 0.311 0.651
Ryne Hardwick 9 2 0 2 3 0.111 0.273 0.222 0.495
Zach Sherrill 2 1 0 1 0 0.500 0.667 1.000 1.667
Ryan Kilgallen 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals 705 94 7 78 142 0.234 0.318 0.333 0.6517
Before I started compiling all these numbers, I would have said that one of the things The Citadel’s players needed to do was take more walks. However, I was surprised to find out that the returning Bulldogs actually had a higher percentage of walks per at bat (11.1%) than the 2011 squad (9.1%), and a similar number to the 2010 title team (11.3%).
One thing that 2010 team did a lot was get hit by pitches, though (29 times in 30 league games). The 2012 team was plunked 19 times (13 of those bruises were suffered by players on the current roster).
It’s also important to be careful about comparing pre- and post-BBCOR numbers. I think that in today’s game, it is even more important to take advantage of free passes, with power numbers and batting averages down throughout college baseball (though the best players can maintain high averages no matter what kind of stick is being wielded).
While there are some individual players who could stand to increase their walk totals, the bottom line is that to make a jump offensively the team as a whole needs to make more consistent hard contact, and improve those BAA/SLG categories to something approaching at least 2011 levels.
There is no question which position in the lineup needs to improve the most at the plate this season. That position would be…Designated Hitter.
I went through all 30 league games and totaled the numbers at the DH spot. The stats are not pretty. Numerous players manned the position last year, and the batting line wound up looking like this:
.186/.292/.268
That is not a typo. The Bulldogs’ DH position had a 560 OPS in conference play. Almost 22% of the ABs resulted in strikeouts. The Citadel only got six extra base hits from its designated hitters in SoCon action (five doubles and a homer). Only one of those extra base hits came at Riley Park.
Fred Jordan’s biggest challenge among his position players may be to find the individual (or platoon) capable of handling DH duties on a regular basis, and producing the kind of offense one would expect from that spot in the order.
SoCon baserunning statistics of note:
The Citadel stole 42 out of 54 bases last season, for a success rate of 77.8%. That doesn’t count the five times Bulldog baserunners were picked off in league play.
Bulldog opponents stole 47 out of 60 bases in conference action (78.3%). There were nine pickoffs by The Citadel’s pitchers in conference action, including four by Austin Pritcher.
Both The Citadel and its opponents had success rates higher than the league average of 74.5%. Elon attempted the most steals in conference play (69), while UNCG only tried to swipe 30 bags. On the defensive side of things, the range was 30 (the number of steal attempts against Elon during the season) to an incredible 85 (against Georgia Southern, of which 70 were successful).
Pitching and defense are intertwined, but it’s possible to get some idea of a team’s defensive quality independent of its pitching.
In 2011, the Bulldogs had arguably their poorest fielding squad in over a decade, with a defensive efficiency rating of 63.2%, by far the worst in the SoCon. That included leading the league in errors (58 in 30 games). The Citadel turned 17 double plays in conference action.
In 2012, the glovework got a lot better. The Citadel’s DER was 67.8%, meaning the Bulldogs were making two or three more plays per game than they did in 2011. That’s a big difference. The standard defensive measures also reflected this improvement, as The Citadel only committed 39 errors in league play, and also turned 25 double plays in SoCon games.
That isn’t to say The Citadel can’t get better in the field. The Bulldogs actually were slightly below average defensively in the SoCon, per DER (the league average was 68.4%).
Nevertheless, it was a marked difference from the season before, and there is no real reason to worry about regression. As Jordan has noted, The Citadel has solid up-the-middle performers, and some observers believe the players at the corner spots have the potential to become excellent defenders as well. This is a group that will help its pitchers more often than not.
Incidentally, while I am concentrating on league statistics here, I did notice that The Citadel’s DER for the entirety of the 2012 season (58 games) was actually better than its league DER. The overall DER last season was 68.97%.
Here are the 2012 SoCon statistics for The Citadel’s returning pitchers:
G GS IP H R ER HR ERA K/9 BB/9
Austin Pritcher 10 10 67.0 73 33 26 2 3.49 5.51 2.28
Logan Cribb 10 10 47.1 54 35 32 5 6.08 6.27 4.20
Kevin Connell 9 6 30.1 37 17 13 2 3.86 3.26 5.98
James Reeves 11 3 22.2 31 20 20 1 7.94 5.56 3.65
Ross White 15 0 13.1 13 12 8 1 5.40 5.40 4.12
Zach Sherrill 11 0 12.0 19 14 13 3 9.75 5.25 5.25
Ryan Hines 16 0 22.1 20 5 5 0 2.01 2.82 2.44
Brett Tompkins 6 0 8.1 9 5 3 0 3.24 5.40 3.33
Connor Walsh 3 0 2.1 3 3 3 0 11.57 3.86 12.86
Totals 91 29 226 259 144 123 14 4.91 5.38 3.83
(Actual total of league innings worked by returning pitchers: 225 2/3. My chart had some issues, hence the “226” total listed.)
Austin Pritcher and Logan Cribb were in the rotation every weekend. One thing The Citadel will need this year is for its starting pitchers to go deeper into games. Last season, starters in conference action averaged just over five innings per start. If you take the starts by the dependable Pritcher out of the equation, the average dips even further, to under 4 1/3 innings per start.
Those non-Pritcher outings featured 39 walks in 85 1/3 innings by Bulldog starters — and only 47 strikeouts.
The walk rates were obviously too high, and must be lowered. They were not completely unmanageable (and among returning pitchers were actually not that much higher than the SoCon average of 3.77 BB/9), but typical Bulldog pitching staffs do not walk people at that rate. Teams that contend for league titles do not walk people at that rate.
I am particularly concerned with the strikeout totals, however. Having a 5.38 K/9 rate as a team is problematic. Pitchers need those strikeouts.
(For clarification, the K/9 rate for the team in league play last season, including pitchers no longer on the roster, was 5.65.)
It may be that punchouts are slightly less valuable in the post-BBCOR era because “pitching to contact” is more likely to be rewarded with an out, but it’s still important to restrict the number of batters who put the ball into play. There are occasionally pitchers capable of succeeding despite relatively low strikeout rates (Tommy John comes to mind), but they are atypical.
The coaching staff knows this, of course. After all, the pitching coach had a career K/9 of 11.63 when he was at The Citadel.
Actually, from watching the games last year at a safe distance, I got the impression that the coaches were very careful with what was a very young group of hurlers. Britt Reames wasn’t afraid to pull a starter early (which contributed to the short duration of some of the starts). I’ve used the phrase “transition season” a lot to describe the 2012 season, and nothing reflects that description more than the way the pitchers were used. There was a lot of on-the-job training on the hill.
That’s not a bad thing if it results in sizable improvement, and Fred Jordan seems very confident about the prospects for this year’s pitching staff, which includes some talented freshmen.
I linked a couple of video Q-and-A sessions in the “Links of Interest” section of Part 1. They feature Jordan answering questions posed by media relations director (and crooner extraordinaire) Mike Hoffman. In the video focusing on pitching, Jordan discusses the possibility of having a freshman closer, among other things.
In that video, Jordan also mentions that Joe Jackson will shoulder even more of the catching load this season. It sounds like Jackson will catch all three games in a weekend series, plus a weekday game, perhaps getting a day off from his receiving duties when the Bulldogs play two weekday games.
It is vitally important that Jackson not get worn down over the course of the season. He was the only Bulldog regular to bat over .300 in SoCon play. His solid work with the bat, combined with his status as a catcher, is why Baseball America pegged him as the #8 pro prospect in the conference. Jackson participated in the Cape Cod League this summer, furthering his development and gaining valuable experience playing against outstanding competition.
Jackson won’t be the only returnee with expectations. I won’t go through the entire roster, but a few other names to follow:
– Educated Bulldog fans should make sure they time their trips to the concession stand so that they don’t miss Bo Thompson’s at bats. The sophomore from Mauldin is capable of producing monstrous, tape-measure home runs. He’s not afraid to take a walk, either. With more consistent hard contact, Thompson could conceivably become one of the league’s premier power hitters.
– Mason Davis had a very respectable debut season, starting (and leading off) every game as a freshman. This year, he will be expected to get on base more often, which should lead to an increase in his stolen base totals.
– After a fine freshman campaign in 2011, Drew DeKerlegand struggled at the plate last season as a sophomore. The native of Texas will move to left field this year, which may help him return to the batting form he showed two years ago.
Those players and others are discussed in some depth in the school’s video Q-and-A about position players.
Last year was a banner season for the Southern Conference, which finished the season with an RPI that ranked seventh-best in the country. Three schools advanced to regional play.
The league should still be good in 2013, but it may take a small step back. Several squads are going to have to rebuild their weekend rotations, and two schools (Appalachian State and UNC-Greensboro) will have new coaches.
Most of the nation’s baseball cognoscenti are of the opinion that at least six teams could win the league. Baseball America gave its preseason nod to the College of Charleston, as did the SoCon media. College Baseball Today favors Western Carolina. College Baseball Daily and the league’s coaches like Elon.
The experts do not think much of The Citadel’s chances. Most observers put the Bulldogs in a second tier, with at least two outlets projecting the cadets to miss the SoCon tournament, despite all the returnees from a team that did make the tourney last season.
That is not unlike 1990, when The Citadel was the preseason choice to finish sixth in a seven-team league. The Bulldogs wound up tying for fifth…in the nation.
I won’t go so far as to say that will happen this season, but I could see The Citadel having a campaign not unlike it had in 1994, when after a tough start the team put everything together and went on a huge run that ended in the NCAAs. Like that squad, the 2013 outfit may need some time to jell, but I think it has the talent to make some major noise in the SoCon. (I would prefer not to have a repeat of the 1994 team’s 5-17 start, however.)
I can’t wait for the season to begin. There isn’t anything better than a day at the ballpark, especially when you’re rooting for a winning team.
I’m ready to root for a winning team again.
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The Citadel will open its 2013 baseball season on Friday, February 15 at 4 pm ET, against George Mason, with the game being played at Joe Riley Park in Charleston. The contest is part of a round-robin tournament that also includes Kansas State and High Point.
Links of interest:
Preview of the upcoming season for the Bulldogs from the school website
2013 “Quick Facts” from the school website
Preview article in The Post and Courier
SoCon preview, Baseball America (The Citadel is picked to finish 7th in the league)
SoCon preview, College Baseball Today (The Citadel is picked to finish 9th in the league)
SoCon preview, College Baseball Daily (The Citadel is picked to finish 9th in the league)
SoCon preseason polls (The Citadel is 8th in the coaches’ poll, and 7th in the media poll)
SoCon preseason all-conference teams (No Bulldogs made either the first or second team)
Videos: Fred Jordan discusses The Citadel’s pitchers and The Citadel’s position players
More video: Fred Jordan discusses his team’s preparation for the opening weekend of the season
Audio: Jordan talks to Phil Kornblut about the upcoming season
It is time for college baseball season, no matter what the weather forecast for the next few weeks says. I’m looking forward to it, as always. This season should prove to be an interesting one for The Citadel, after three very different kinds of campaigns over the past three years.
2010: Southern Conference regular season and tournament champions
2011: Last place
2012: Transitional season
Yes, last year was a transitional season, both on the field and on the coaching staff. The Citadel finished with a losing record, both overall (25-33) and in league play (13-17). However, after the debacle of the 2011 campaign, the goals for last year were relatively modest.
New arrivals were put in key roles, and for the most part did not shrink from the challenge. In the end, a tie for 7th in the SoCon and a berth in the league tournament seemed to be a reasonable outcome for the Bulldogs.
That won’t be the case this year. The Citadel is used to winning, and contending, on a near-annual basis. Losing seasons in what has historically been the school’s most successful sport are generally not acceptable.
So how will the Bulldogs fare this season? Well, most of the players who saw action on the diamond in 2012 are back this year, including seven regulars among the position players and the bulk of The Citadel’s pitching staff. Many of them showed promise last season.
There are things that need to be improved this season, however. Some of those necessary improvements are obvious, while others are perhaps more subtle. As usual on this blog, I’m going to be a bit stat-intensive in discussing the team and league. I have even gone so far as to create a new statistic; feel free to mock it with reckless abandon.
One quick note: unless I state otherwise, all statistics are for Southern Conference games only. That’s because A) it’s easier, and much fairer, to compare teams within a specific subset, and B) ultimately, conference play is what most of the season is about anyway. The Citadel’s baseball team will succeed or fail this year based on how it does in SoCon action. I do recognize the limitations of the sample size when making comparisons or analyzing trends.
Just to refresh everyone’s memory, each conference team plays a round-robin schedule of three-game series for a total of thirty SoCon games. There are fifteen home games and fifteen road games. In 2012, there were no postponements that weren’t eventually made up, so the complete league schedule was in fact played.
Last year’s league team batting statistics:
AVG OBP SLUG R H HR RBI BB SO OPS
App State 0.312 0.392 0.459 212 329 25 192 115 180 0.851
WCU 0.308 0.376 0.417 174 332 21 157 100 194 0.793
Samford 0.302 0.387 0.443 199 323 27 181 121 172 0.830
Furman 0.285 0.361 0.404 157 304 20 138 109 191 0.765
CofC 0.278 0.369 0.445 202 287 33 180 128 240 0.814
Elon 0.277 0.367 0.391 190 295 18 169 131 229 0.758
GSU 0.274 0.353 0.375 158 279 14 131 101 186 0.728
UNCG 0.273 0.353 0.368 157 283 13 139 112 214 0.721
Davidson 0.244 0.329 0.326 120 251 11 105 109 256 0.655
The Citadel 0.239 0.319 0.333 143 244 11 123 106 204 0.652
Wofford 0.238 0.316 0.333 131 234 16 109 102 219 0.649
That looks rather ugly for the Bulldogs, doesn’t it? Next-to-last in batting average and OBP, only ahead of one other team in slugging percentage, tied for the fewest home runs.
I’m not going to sell you on the idea that The Citadel was an offensive juggernaut. However, the Bulldogs weren’t quite as bad as those raw numbers would lead you to believe. You have to consider park effects.
Ah, yes, park effects. The Citadel plays half of its league schedule at Riley Park, which is a true “pitcher’s park”. The question becomes, then, how do you compare these numbers? I decided to give it a shot.
First, I used the Park Factors calculated by the estimable Boyd Nation. His numbers are based on all games played at a school’s home park over the past four seasons (2009-12). That gives us a chance to make a more valid comparison.
One caveat: The four-year period in question includes two years in the pre-BBCOR era, and two years after the new bat standards went into effect. That could have a marginal impact on the ratings. However, I feel reasonably comfortable using these Park Factors.
Riley Park has a Park Factor (PF) of 82, by far the lowest in the league. Appalachian State’s Smith Stadium has a PF of 121, which is the highest for the 2009-12 period.
I took the PF for every team’s home park, came up with a “road park factor” based on the five different road stadia each team played in during the 2012 season, and added them together. Each school thus has a total park factor that is based on where it actually played all 30 games.
Okay, now for the magic!
Let’s look again at how many runs each team scored in league play:
App State 212
CofC 202
Samford 199
WCU 174
GSU 158
Furman 157
UNCG 157
The Citadel 143
Wofford 131
Davidson 120
Runs are the building blocks of the game, obviously; you want to score them, and you want to prevent them from being scored. Scoring runs is the truest measure of a team’s offense. It doesn’t matter if you score them the Earl Weaver way or the Whitey Herzog way.
Appalachian State led the league in runs scored. However, we’ve already seen that half of the Mountaineers’ games are played at the friendly confines of Smith Stadium. What happens when you take park factors into account?
R HomePF RoadPF TotalPF SS+ rating
Elon 190 98 101.8 99.9 1.901901902
CofC 202 99 115.4 107.2 1.884328358
App State 212 121 107.4 114.2 1.856392294
Samford 199 109 106.2 107.6 1.849442379
WCU 174 119 100 109.5 1.589041096
The Citadel 143 82 106.2 94.1 1.519659936
GSU 158 117 96.2 106.6 1.482176360
Furman 157 103 109.6 106.3 1.476952023
UNCG 157 117 107.4 112.2 1.399286988
Wofford 131 94 101 97.5 1.343589744
Davidson 120 104 111.8 107.9 1.112140871
These are sorted by what I’m calling the team’s SS+ rating. The SS+ rating is derived from dividing runs scored by a team’s total park factor. As you can see, this suggests that Elon actually had the league’s best offense last season (although the four teams at the top are tightly bunched).
It also shows that despite being ninth in the league in runs scored, The Citadel actually had a decent offense, though it was still slightly below the league average; the league mean SS+ was 1.5846948.
Of course, scoring runs is only half of the equation. Preventing runs is just as important, and I ran the PF numbers for pitching and defense too.
ERA BAA IP H R BB K HR BB/9 K/9
CofC 3.37 0.250 267 253 124 71 229 15 2.39 7.72
Samford 3.80 0.254 275 267 137 99 228 12 3.24 7.46
Elon 3.87 0.263 281.1 282 148 109 219 21 3.49 7.01
GSU 3.93 0.267 265.1 272 141 103 246 21 3.49 8.34
WCU 4.14 0.267 263 269 156 124 218 21 4.24 7.46
App State 4.40 0.271 264 272 156 118 197 15 4.02 6.72
Wofford 4.75 0.275 263.1 285 175 117 243 20 4.00 8.31
The Citadel 5.01 0.294 264.1 305 175 118 166 17 4.02 5.65
Furman 5.77 0.300 270 325 193 114 205 24 3.80 6.83
UNCG 6.18 0.290 262.1 302 210 139 169 23 4.77 5.80
Davidson 6.40 0.301 267.1 329 228 122 165 20 4.11 5.55
Those are the team pitching statistics for the 2012 SoCon campaign. I’ll now list the runs column separately:
Here is the pitching/defense version of the park factors chart I ran earlier for the offense:
R TotalPF SS- rating
CofC 124 107.2 1.1567164
Samford 137 107.6 1.2732342
GSU 141 106.6 1.3227017
App State 156 114.2 1.3660245
WCU 156 109.5 1.4246575
Elon 148 99.9 1.4814815
Wofford 175 97.5 1.7948718
Furman 193 106.3 1.8156162
The Citadel 175 94.1 1.8597237
UNCG 210 112.2 1.8716578
Davidson 228 107.9 2.1130677
I skipped the home/road PF factor columns; they are the same as the columns in the offensive chart (as is the Total PF column, but it was easy enough to include it in this chart too).
This result is similar to the actual runs allowed column, with Appalachian State faring a little better and The Citadel a bit worse. Just to avoid confusion, I want to point out that the SS- rating mean for the 2012 SoCon season is the same as the SS+ rating mean (1.5846948).
While I’m concentrating on league play in this preview, I want to devote a small section of this post to non-conference scheduling.
If you rank the difficulty of a team’s 2013 non-conference schedule by its opponents’ RPI ratings from 2012 (which definitely has its limitations in terms of analysis, but is still interesting), this is what you get:
Elon (8th-toughest 2013 OOC slate by 2012 RPI)
Georgia Southern (31st)
College of Charleston (48th)
Furman (69th)
Western Carolina (76th)
Davidson (79th)
Appalachian State (95th)
The Citadel (113th)
UNC-Greensboro (187th)
Wofford (188th)
Samford (221st)
(Note: ratings courtesy of Southeastern Baseball’s RPI Ratings Blog)
Elon’s non-league slate includes Coastal Carolina, Kentucky, UNC-Wilmington (twice), Wake Forest (twice), North Carolina (twice), North Carolina State (twice), East Carolina (three times), and Louisville (three times). That’s a tough schedule.
Samford has to replace its entire starting pitching rotation from last season’s SoCon tournament champions, which might explain an easier-to-navigate OOC slate. However, I tend to think that 221st overall rating (out of 298 Division I teams) is a bit misleading. Samford’s non-conference schedule is not that bad.
This season, SoCon teams will play 179 non-conference games at home and 108 on the road (numbers again per Southeastern Baseball). That does not include any neutral-site action. Of those 108 road games, 41 of them are against SEC or ACC teams.
The Citadel’s non-league slate includes a home-and-home set with South Carolina, along with a home-and-home against Coastal Carolina (played on consecutive days). Four games are scheduled against Charleston Southern, and Tony Skole will bring his ETSU squad to town for a midweek contest. There are also matchups against North Carolina and Georgia Tech (both on the road), and a potentially tricky early-season three-game series at North Florida.
As has become traditional during Jack Leggett’s tenure at Clemson, there will be no games between the Bulldogs and Tigers.
This concludes Part 1. In Part 2, I’ll break down The Citadel’s 2012 season a bit more and note some specific improvements the Bulldogs need to make to contend in the SoCon. Part 2 is right here: Link
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Holy Cross College Rowing Team In Deadly Car Accident
BOSTON, MA - OCTOBER 21: The Women's Championship Fours team from Holy Cross rows past Newell Boathouse in the 54th Head of the Charles Regatta on October 21, 2018 in Boston, Massachusetts.(Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)
Tragedy struck the Holy Cross community this week. The school’s rowing team was involved a deadly car accident during a trip to Florida. One student-athlete has been killed.
Grace Rett, 20, died in the accident. Thirteen others involved in the crash reportedly had to be taken to the hospital.
“Grace was a light to all who knew her,” Holy Cross Dean of Students Michele Murray said during a press conference. “She was incredibly passionate and hardworking.”
Six students from the College of Holy Cross women’s rowing team, along with their head coach, were reportedly hospitalized from the crash.
The team’s van reportedly collided with a pickup truck on Wednesday morning. The team was reportedly heading to a rowing club for practice in Florida.
The College is saddened at the passing of Grace Rett '22 after an accident involving our women's rowing team. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family, friends and teammates. As we are able, we will provide updates and more information here: https://t.co/wLEHRlmNBi pic.twitter.com/6a0lBT317h
— Holy Cross (@holy_cross) January 15, 2020
Rett, a sophomore, recently set a world record, rowing for 62 hours.
A star member of the Holy Cross women’s rowing team was killed in a Florida car accident Wednesday — one day after her 20th birthday.
Grace Rett recently set a world record: rowing for 62 hours.
@NikkiBattiste reports https://t.co/QV7DyhfpP8 pic.twitter.com/DNp0rIzvdM
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) January 15, 2020
A GoFundMe has been set up for the ongoing medical expenses:
Awful day for my alma mater yesterday. The women’s crew team was in a tragic accident. Here’s a link to a gofundme to help with medical expenses: https://t.co/lLb7o9kCDw
— John O'Connell (@jacko2323) January 16, 2020
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Nebraska Methodist College Representatives talk with student Angel Gonzalez at the WSC career fair.
Kori Siebert, Staff Writer
The semi-annual WSC career fair jumped to success with over 400 students attending last Wednesday in the Student Center.
In addition to a strong student attendance, the career fair hosted 80 employers and their booths. Career services spent all day setting up, hosting and tearing down the fair for students to attend and talk with employers. The career fair lasted from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“It’s good to start building connections,” said Heather Reinhardt, career services specialist. “With so many applications being online anymore it’s really hard to make face to face contact with somebody, so the career fair is at least one good opportunity where you can actually visit with somebody and make a good first impression with them too.”
Students who chose to attend the fair were able to have their resumes looked over by career services ahead of time to be prepared for future employers.
“The more you go, the more confidence you have when you go to each career fair that you attend, plus employers could be looking for internships too,” said Reinhardt. “Some of our employers come back each time, so if it’s an impressive student they’ll actually remember them each time they come back.
“We send out probably over a couple thousand invites to the career fair for a variety of majors,” said Reinhardt. “It does seem though that some majors maybe just don’t recruit through a career fair type event, but I would say we had a variety of business, criminal justice, communications, we probably had a little something for everybody.”
Freshman Carrigan Okerlund agreed that there was a little bit for everyone.
“My favorite part was probably how many people showed up from different career opportunities,” said Okerlund. “For me there was a lot of police departments and correction facilities.”
Okerlund said the career fair was a good opportunity presented by Wayne State, so people might as well take advantage and use it to meet employers.
“I want to go into parole and probation,” said Okerlund. “They didn’t really have any of those, so then when I went and talked to the police they said I could start in corrections and then transfer over to parole which kind of gave me more ideas of a career instead of only parole.”
Reinhardt said they were getting feedback from employers who attended the career fair and they had good things to say about WSC students.
One employer said, “Always impressed with students we talk with.” Another employer said, “This is one event that we really like being a part of, we hope your students will follow through with us, we think highly of the students that are turning out.”
Reinhardt said the career fair was a success and that she saw a lot of students dressed up nice for employers.
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Late ‘NCIS: LA’ Star Miguel Ferrer’s 3 Sons Are All Grown Up, and Look Just Like Him
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The world is still mourning the loss of Miguel Ferrer since throat cancer took his life in 2017. The actor was 61 years old. Nobody misses him more than the three sons who survive him: Lukas, the eldest, was born in 1993, Rafael (a.k.a. “Rafi”) in 1996, and Jose in 2004, but the boys carry with them the very best memento: they have grown up to look exactly like their father.
Presenting an award at the Best Friends fundraiser. pic.twitter.com/0c2bY5dfhx
— Miguel Ferrer (@Miguel_J_Ferrer) September 18, 2013
Ferrer, incidentally George Clooney’s cousin and the son of Academy Award-winning actor Jose Ferrer, is best remembered for playing NCIS Assistant Director Owen Granger on crime drama NCIS: Los Angeles. He appeared in blockbusters such as Robocop, Crossing Jordan, and Iron Man 3, and branched into voice acting as the voice of “Shan Yu” in the 1998 animated adventure Mulan.
Ferrer was married twice, first to the actress Leilani Sarelle, Lukas and Rafi’s mother, from 1991 to 2003. He married entertainment executive Lori Weintraub in 2005.
Just yesterday, we were cruising down San Vicente looking for a new record player to listen to all those old vinyls…
由 Rafi Ferrer 发布于 2017年1月19日周四
Today, Ferrer’s sons are all grown up and are each vocal on social media about their enduring pride for the man who brought them up. Ferrer’s legacy is the inspiration he gave them to never give up.
“Just yesterday, we made plans to go to the beach this weekend,” Rafi posted on Facebook as part of a touching tribute the day after his father’s untimely death. “I would drive the land cruiser and you would play DJ, schooling me on Bob Dylan … Just yesterday, I hugged you tight and told you how much I loved you,” the heartbroken son continued, “not thinking for a second that this was the last moment we would ever share.”
Ferrer with his wife, Lori Weintraub, at the LACMA 2015 Art & Film Gala in LA, 2015 (©Getty Images | Mike Windle)
Ferrer was born in Santa Monica, California. Spending his adolescence on the periphery of the Hollywood milieu, he developed a deep appreciation for music and took up playing the drums. He even played on Keith Moon’s seminal solo album Two Sides of the Moon.
Ferrer’s friend Bill Mumy, hearing the album, later cast him as a drummer in the series Sunshine, and the paired joined Mac Allan Collins and Steve Leialoha to form the band “Seduction of the Innocent.”
This kid is going to college next year. Hard to believe. pic.twitter.com/uXZIJhKj8S
— Miguel Ferrer (@Miguel_J_Ferrer) October 3, 2013
Ferrer never completely divorced himself from music but devoted himself to acting in 1980. He took on a role playing a younger version of his father Jose in the cult classic TV series Magnum, P.I. in 1981. Later, he adopted starring roles in a number of TV series including Twin Peaks and NCIS: Los Angeles, the latter of which he is arguably most remembered for.
My son the pool hustler cleaned me out today. Can I borrow some cash? pic.twitter.com/bEqSuQDpkx
— Miguel Ferrer (@Miguel_J_Ferrer) August 17, 2013
He often played a villain. “I think villainy just comes naturally to me,” the actor once said in an interview with OK!TV. “I get to work it out naturally so I can be a nice person in life.”
Ferrer even branched into theater, and made his New York stage debut in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated. He never stopped, lived a life of creative fulfillment, and paid homage to his passions. But he always made time for family.
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由 Rafi Ferrer 发布于 2017年9月25日周一
“There would never be a perfect time to say goodbye to you, dad,” devoted son Rafi shared online after his father’s passing. “You were my best friend, my role model, and my guiding light. You will be missed and honored for many years to come.”
What do you think? How much do the grown Ferrer boys emulate their father? Only time will tell how much the family resemblance will grow.
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LaxFit Program Benefits Player Safety & Performance
US Lacrosse today announced the launch of its new LaxFit initiative, designed to enhance player safety and performance. Developed in consultation with medical experts at MedStar Health, LaxFit is a standardized and comprehensive exercise and strengthening program that will increase athlete performance, reduce high-risk lacrosse injuries, and promote healthy long-term athlete development.
The LaxFit exercises can be used by athletes of all ages and provide the greatest benefit when consistently performed prior to every lacrosse practice and game as part of a dynamic warm-up.
“This program is intended as a model for developing strong and resilient musculature among lacrosse athletes and for serving as a teaching tool for physical literacy,” said Dr. Bruce Griffin, director of the Center for Sport Science at US Lacrosse.
While the full LaxFit program will eventually have five components, addressing different muscle groups and body areas for lacrosse athletes, the initial rollout features only Phase 1, focusing on lower extremities. This stage is an updated version of the LaxPrep exercise routine.
LaxFit's Phase 1 initiative is a research-based warm-up and exercise program designed to decrease an athlete’s risk of a lower extremity injury. The program emphasizes core strength, balance, and proper landing techniques. The easy-to-execute content has been tailored for coaches, parents, and program leaders, as well as athletes.
“We had significant qualitative research to study the effectiveness of the lower extremity injury risk reduction program and made revisions to improve the program based on that research,” Griffin said. “Launching LaxFit with this revised program as Phase 1 was the right choice.”
The five full phases of LaxFit, noted below, will rollout over the next 18-24 months.
● Phase 1 – Lower Extremities
● Phase 2 – Hips, Lower Back & Spine
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● Phase 4 – Head, Neck & Upper Back
● Phase 5 – Return to Play Protocol
An online tutorial course explains how to successfully implement all the elements of the LaxFit program, with demonstrations for all the exercises. Access to LaxFit’s online training course is free for US Lacrosse members, and available to non-members for $50. The first component, lower extremity injuries, is available now.
Access the training course at learning.uslacrosse.org, search “LaxFit” in the Catalog, or find the course under the “1-Coaches” folder. A login is required.
Some exercises in the LaxFit program require the use of a resistance band. These Versa-Loop mini bands can be purchased online for just $3.00.
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The full program will eventually have five components, addressing different muscle groups and body areas for lacrosse athletes.
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Greg Tito
1 POSTED: 20 Jun 2011 17:00
The best conclusion any fanboy could wish for.
MatsVS
Thank you for the thoughtful and contagiously giddy commentary throughout the season, Mr. Tito, I've greatly enjoyed it. I've yet to catch the final episode, knowing all too well the inevitable, inexplicable emptiness I'll feel once it's over and the credits roll. I'm sure I'll be better served by savouring it for when my mood is perfect, and I have a whole evening to properly absorb it.
Funny thing is, before this series started, I did not count myself a great Martin fan, having found the latest title lacking, but now my excitement has been ignited yet again, and I am eager to consume the newest title. Hopefully, it will be more focused than Feast and prove that Martin actually knows where he intends to take this jumbled narrative.
MatsVS:
Thanks, MatsVS, I've enjoyed writing it throughout the season. I was disappointed by Feast as well, I even thought that Robert Jordan's successor did a better job keeping my interest, which sounds like blasphemy but it was true.
Hopefully Dance will redeem Martin as much as this series has.
ThaBenMan
Man, the season flew by. It was an amazing ride, though - HBO did an incredible job with the adaptation, staying true to the spirit of the books but also adding some great content and making it their own. Bravo, HBO, I can't wait for season 2, and hopefully seasons 3, 4, and 5 after that!
And I've really enjoyed reading these commentaries after each episode - it was great to read some interesting thoughts from a fellow fan of the books and show. Well done, Greg.
So, we have A Dance with Dragons to look forward to, and the DVD release. But it's still going to be a long wait for season 2...
Odd. I assumed that the whole Daenerys/ Drogo thing would be way more graphic and awful in the books than in the TV series (I watched that part in the series first before delving into the books) but it seemed, to me, that the whole thing was somewhat less forceful in the books. There's the whole "No" part when they first have sex where in the books, where Dany was a lot less tentative whereas in the series she's on the verge of breaking down at the thought of getting raped right then in there, which was followed by the later stuff both in the book and the series where she basically swoons for the guy while at the same time she finds her strength.
I'm not sure if I misunderstood it, badly, or if somehow I'm missing the point made in the separate novella about her (Blood of the Dragon) that better explains her misadventures with the Dothraki.
Can anyone clear that up for me?
unabomberman:
Yeah, the Dany/Drogo relationship is a little muddy for me.
I thought Blood of the Dragon was just Dany's POV chapters from GOT bound together. Is that not the case? Is there more detail given?
Greg Tito:
The way I understand it, and I may be wrong, is that Blood of the Dragon is comprised of both the contents of the book with a little bit more content to flesh everything out, and that I may be forming an incomplete picture of the whole deal.
Why do I say that? I've read that a lot of people, especially females, tend to look at the TV adaptation in a way that makes it seem like it was somewhat sanitisized in that part, making Dany's experience less gruesome, but somehow I can't wrap it around my head just by seeing what was there in the written page. To me, it seemed as if it was made a bit more shocking than in the books.
Was it awful? Yeah, very, especially when considering Dany starts as a 13 year old tween, but the way I saw it, if only going by what I've read, is that Khal Drogo was a lot more tender to her in the beginning in the books than in the series. Especially during their first time together.
MajorDolphin
This is why I hate television.. I find something I really like and watch it as often as I can and then the season ends and the long wait for the next one begins. Grr.
Feast for Crows is killing me. Why the author decided to forget about all the interesting characters and the interesting things they're doing is beyond me. Is it just me or does Martin rely far too much on story twists? He constantly builds up expectations only to go the completely opposite direction and it was old by book 3.
cryosleep
I haven't read Blood of the Dragon but I always felt the relationship between Dany and Drogo was pretty clear. For me the whole point of the narrative was that Dany was always the strong one, right from the beginning. Despite her age and naivety she'd already had to grow up fast. Like many of the series' children.
Whereas Viserys, who'd been old enough to be traumatised by the destruction of their House and their flight, was damaged and weak. Dany's strength had always been smothered and constrained by the abuse and inadequacy of her brother. In the books, isn't the only "home" she remembers and wishes for a house with a red door, somewhere in the Free Cities? After the death of their protector she had to help provide for them, her sense of duty to her brother forcing her submission, before being taken in by Illyrio and finally accepting to be sold to Khal Drogo.
I think what Dany found in the Khal, apart from the surprising tenderness - just a bonus really - was strength. Strength and pride. The sort of power that was a complete antithesis to the festering, treacherous mess of complexes and fear that her brother represented. Ultimately, Dany loved the Khal as much for showing her who she really was and freeing her from the psychological baggage her brother had bound her with, as for the man himself.
rickthetrick
10 POSTED: 20 Jun 2011 19:12
MajorDolphin:
Think waiting till spring is bad? Think about how long ago Feast came out. As for why it doesn't have all the characters. GRRM explains it as he wrote too much, and had to put out Half of his book. That doesn't really explain why it's taken forever and day for Dance to come out though.
OT: I'm looking forward to season two and three.
I have to wonder who they'll pick to play Briene of Tarth.
Here's hoping they keep her ugly :)
Noelveiga
Ok, this is freaking me out, now. Why does Greg Tito keep referring to the books as if they had actually happened and talking about "historical accuracy". At first, earlier in the season, I thought it was some sort of rethorical resource, but now it's seriously starting to come across as nerd delusions.
Anyway, yep, it was pretty cool. Not quite as cool as some made it out to be. It wasn't more shocking or detailed than Rome and, frankly, a lot of smaller threads didn't pay off. Sure, they *will*, but like I've said elsewhere, at that point we're in FFXIII's 40 hour tutorial territory.
By the way (spoilers for Dune and this), I would have been waaaaay more shocked at Ned's death (the use of misspelled common names in the show is one of the little things that annoy me) if I hadn't realized early on that this is just fantasy Dune.
I mean, a nobleman forced to go rule in a place he has no particular interest in? Suspiciously friendly allies that may or may not be setting up a trap? Betrayal from one of them out of left field? Friends and children left to escape by their own devices? A counterattack built out of a grassroots movement? Yeah, it's pretty close and not quite as original as people make it out to be. But still cool, don't get me wrong.
rickthetrick:
True. I was just looking at the release dates. I'll have to find something worth reading after I knock out Dragons.
( Is it just me or would this series make a great MMO. :D All the hints at long past times and kings almost lends itself to it )
Rashkavar
From what I've heard (I'm a neophyte to the Song of Ice and Fire - I've only read Game of Thrones as yet), Martin made the same mistake in Book 4 that Robert Jordan did...in book 4. Character overexposure. Some viewpoint characters are dropped in book 4 and book 4's will be dropped in book 5 - they happen concurrently. Or so I've been told.
And to be fair, Brandon Sanderson is one of the best fantasy writers of the day. In the gap between deciding it was inevitable that Robert Jordan would die before Wheel of Time was completed and Sanderson being declared his successor, I feared it would be like reading the batch of Foundation books written after Asimov's death. He's a different sort of writer than Jordan or Martin, but still good.
For me, as a Sanderson fan, the agony is waiting for book 2 (and the remaining 8 or so) of the Stormlight Archive. He's been quoted as saying the project will take him 12 years, and, according to his website's progress logs, he's not even working on book 2 yet. That said, I can't blame him for prioritizing the last of the Wheel of Time books before going back to his own megaproject.
The TV buffs have it easy - they at least have guarenteed timelines. It's not uncommon for the megaproject book series to take nearly 2 years between installments, and I've heard of even longer waits. And to us rabid fans, each installment lasts 1-2 weeks, rather than the 10-26 of a "season."
And despite the parallels to Dune, the inspiration is the War of the Roses. Many of the major characters have direct parallels in history. Heck, when I was first reading Game of Thrones, my Dad was reading an in depth history of that time period, and several house and place names were quite comparable between the two. That said, there weren't any ice zombies (white walkers) or dragons involved in any part of the War of the Roses. Would've made history class in grade 9 more interesting, but sadly...
Lex Darko
Noelveiga:
I don't know of any grass roots resistance movements in ASOIAF series other than maybe what Dany starts up in A Clash of King and A Storm of Swords; and even then she is still in the free cities far from Westeros.
Vary's and Baelish were never Stark's friends they are master manipulators.
I'm sorry I just don't see the parallels with Dune.
OT: I enjoyed the adaptation but can't help but feel like big chunks of the back/connecting stories are still missing.
For example think about how many times Lyanna's name is mentioned in the book compared to the show. By the end of AGoT you knew that Ned had promised Lyanna something more than just a burial plot under Winterfell; that sense of missing information conveyed by Ned's constant thoughts about the promise made to his dying sister is sorely absent from show.
Another example missing back story would be the speeches given to John Snow by Lord Mormont and Meister Aemon. Both of those were cut short for the show. For me it was those types of connecting threads that made the story really enjoyable and immersive but are missing in the TV series.
Then there are the missing dreams of the POV characters, and the forgone insights due to change in medium. I'm re-watching episode 10 now and from what's shown you would never guess that Catelyn blames herself for Ned's death; or that Dany had visions about the death of her son (and his would be destiny) while he was still in the womb.
On the other hand, they did do a fantastic job with most of the supporting characters especially Tywin Lannister. His introduction in episode 7 (You win or You Die) was perfect. And how they've built up the role of Theon Greyjoy was nicely done also, give his role as a POV character in A Clash of Kings.
With the books I had to look up on the wiki just who Theon was again by the time I started on A Clash of Kings, from you show you wouldn't know it but he really is only mentioned about 5 times in the entire book.
In the end I really do hope that get a better budget for Season 2 given the number of battles that happen and that fact that Dany almost always keeps at least one of the those Dragons with her at all times.
Sober Thal
A glimpse of Jaqen..... I am so pissed I have to wait for more!!!!!!
I wonder who will play the Onion Knight, and Briene the Beauty. Those are my only worries for the second season.
Great recap.... but I have to ask...
I even thought that Robert Jordan's successor did a better job keeping my interest, which sounds like blasphemy but it was true.
The new books are amazing... we all know Jordan had his wife write the last few books anyways, eh?
Would you rather the series never be continued?! Or did you miss the 700 page woman's circle talk?
/half kidding
"Historical accuracy" is used because they are researched and intended to be historically accurate to medieval customs. That's why. It's not some kind of "nerd delusion." That's just ignorance speaking on your part.
Who have you been talking with, then? Nobody has been making it up to be as something groundbreaking and original as you were expecting it to be. Those particular plot strands, especially, have been around for thousands of years and you could fill the back of trucks with all kinds of different stories about the same thing. JRRM just does it exceptionally well, that's all.
This. Fantasy is always stronger to me when it has real-world analogues, and Martin does that expertly. This is the reason I prefer playing D&D with rules that adhere to how humans actually lived in history, rather than supermen with super human powers at level one. And it's why Game of Thrones resonates with so many people, especially me.
Tdc2182
I read the first few paragraphs and didn't spoil anything for myself.
But as a newcomer to the series, I said "Oh shit" each time I saw a new dragon. And I agree, they really did a great job with the special effects.
But we have to wait an entire year for the next season? Sadface maximum. Guess I now have a reason to read the books.
Come on Susan, I want my Recap.
snowfi6916
I have not started reading the series yet, but after watching Season 1 I fully intend to.
Coming into watching the show I was a big LOTR fan, now I think I might be a Martin fan as well. I enjoy how he doesn't hold onto his main characters like Tolkien did...no "coming back to life" heroes here.
As a side note...DAMN YOU HBO FOR MAKING ME WAIT UNTIL NEXT SPRING TO SEE A NEW EPISODE!
Aw well, like I said, go to Barnes n Noble, buy the series(up to this point), then wait for Season 1 to come out on DVD.
the7ofswords
Roz has some sort of magical power, have you noticed? As soon as she takes her clothes off, people around her just begin yammering on about all sorts of things. I move she be referred to henceforth as "Roz the Magical Exposition Whore."
Elf Defiler Korgan
I too have felt the books have been going down-hill for sometime. The last was particularly bad and slow moving. Looking forward to the next book though, it is a huge tome and some good characters are back.
On the tv series, I've liked it more than the books. Easier to follow, wonderfully acted in most parts, good fights, the music was used in a stunning fashion--really draws you in.
Good point on picking up how inept it portrayed Tyrion in combat against the Northern forces (but not against the raiders). I do remember he did well in the books, and was not just knocked out and then mocked by Bronn. An opportunity missed there. And they were doing so well with Tyrion (how perfect is Tywin in the series?).
"Roz the Magical Exposition Whore." Lol, awesome title.
If they play their cards right (directing cards that is), they can cram the boring parts of the books into a smaller space, or skip many of them entirely. The merits of a show over a book I say.
Now that season 1 is done, I actually plan to run a D&D game where the players are Lannister guards. There are more than a few things they can get involved in, and influence. Or maybe Jory/Ned/Robb's men will just kill them.
Wait, what? It's a fantasy story, it's no more historically accurate than Star Wars. Going back to Dune, yes, it was loosely based on Lawrence of Arabia, but that doesn't make anything "accurate" in it. The thought that Game of Thrones conveys anything real about any time period is ridiculous. That doesn't make it bad or less enjoyable, but it's certainly giving it waaaay too much credit as a history lesson. It's fantasy and escapism, as it should be.
That doesn't mean it doesn't feel plausible. It does. It has its own internal sense of logic that makes it feel like it's grounded in *a* reality (well, most of the time, I have quite a few gripes on that area), but it's certainly not our reality at any point in time. And maybe "nerd delusions" is a bit strong, but it's certainly extremely nerdy to not realize this. It's close to comic book geeks talking about what happens to Superman as if he were a real person. Case in point: " Tyrion defeats one knight and takes another hostage in the battle. He is no great warrior, but he holds his own, and I don't think the show really did Tyrion justice."
This from Greg in last week's post:
"Martin rips away Stark's duty and honor, and kills him off anyway. This scene is what sets Martin's story apart from all the fantasy that has come before. Sure, Gandalf dies, but he comes back again. Snape kills Dumbledore, but that's kinda what he wanted. None of these compare to the pathos behind the death of Ned Stark."
TV.com about this week:
"That may sound like a whole lot to keep track of, but somehow-and I'm still trying to figure out exactly how-Game of Thrones has managed to take this complex web of stories and make it easily digestible. Just step back and consider of how many things are going on, how many characters you've met, how everything is interconnected, and how far you've come to understand this world that is now impossible to remove from your imagination. It's a universe so rich and deep, with even its smallest parts described in the most specific detail, yet it's just getting started. And the real mind-blower is that it all came out of just one person's brain. Spring 2012 can't come soon enough!"
So, yeah. And that's just the professional writers, not even the unwashed masses of nerds.
RandV80
The verbal sparring between LITTLEFINGER and VARYS was a sheer pleasure to behold. The two spymasters one-upping each other on what they know the other knows verged on poetry. For that scene to be reprised in "Fire and Blood" was wonderful, and set up perfectly how the machinations of these two will continue in the second season.
This is one of those things personally I wasn't sure about. Oh their bantering was great, but it's how you put it, the two 'spymasters'. This is exactly the way it comes off in the show, but Littlefinger isn't a spymaster he's the master of coin. Sure he'll have his own spy network, but Varys is the real spymaster with knowledge that borders on black magic, and a master of disguise too boot! Littlefinger is the schemer who you give two gold coins to rub together and two more will fall out. The show sets them up as Spy vs Spy, but in the source material it's more Wall Street vs CIA. It's not that big a deal really, it just bothers me a little because having Littlefinger as a spymaster too kind of makes Varys redundant. Not only can he do The Spider's job but he's the pimp daddy of Kings Landing to boot!
As for the show, this about sums it up for me.
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10/10!
El_Ganso
@Noelveiga: have you read the books or are you just passing judgement on them based on a TV adaptation? because if you have read the books then okay I can entertain your points and have a discussion on them, but if you haven't then all I can say is "Don't judge a book by it's TV adaptation".
I'm an avid reader, I have more books than I have time to read them, but I have to say that A Song of Ice and Fire took my cynical "I've seen it all" attitude and gave it a slap so hard that I can't do anything but applaud GRRM for being such a great story teller and say "Well Played". I believe, and frankly I think a lot of the hardcore GRRM fans would agree, that Book 1 of A Song of Ice and Fire has enough material for a 20 episode season, but what we got in these 10 episodes is so good that we actually feel grateful that they tried so hard to be so true to the source material on such a low budget and time constraints.
Anyone that wants to have a real opinion about GRRM should go read the books (there's a reason English teachers want their students to actually read a book and not just the cliffnotes)
Anyway, I have to add a few things to the general discussion: There are 3 main things I feel the TV series missed out on.
1.- Sansa betraying her father's plan to Cersei to accentuate in the future just how misserable Sansa's life has become.
2.- The Hound taking the mantle of King's Guard but not taking the oath: Cersei pretty much turned the King's Guard into a laughing stock when she dismissed Ser Barristan, but then when they offer a position to The Hound and he says "I'll wear the cloak but I will not take any vows" to the council's face and they just sit there and take it, that gives a whole lot of insight into just how bad things are getting in the capitol and the disdain Sandor has for the nobility.
3.- When Daenerys first asks the Dothraki for their Blood Oaths and they refuse her: At Drogo's pyre Daeny wants to rebuild the khalasar and she asks her remaining riders to be her Blood Riders, but they all refuse her because she's a woman and thus weak, but after she comes out of the fire with three baby dragons they can't fall fast enough to their knees, and this is something that serves to illustrate just how every other man of power treats Daeny when they first meet her: try to bed her cause she's hot, but then fear her cause she commands some Dothraki barbarians and she has 3 dragons.
Wait, wait...what? Are you implying that JRRM actually invented the whole damn thing? Sorry, but no. Just no. There's a bunch that is actually borrowed.
He did not invent a lot of the customs, societal mores, cultural norms, war strategies, tournament rules, etc., etc., etc. Whether the story is ficticious or not is of no consequence to it being historically accurate in function of our own world. That's, well, I'd think it was just obvious but apparently I was way wrong. Hell, in his homepage JRRM pretty much says so himself, and posts a bunch of links he used to do actual research for the books, making huge emphasis on medieval culture.
Also, those quotes? They don't really further your argument. Read them again. Nobody is calling the series an unseen, unique kind of drama. All they are saying is that it is expertly crafted. You are extrapolating way too much.
Rusman
I agree wholeheartedly, my friend showed me the first episode and I was instantly hooked. Ended up reading the first and majority of the second book before the series was finished and now cannot wait for spring to starts seeing some kings clashing.
There was a couple of additional things that annoyed me in the series though, drawing on your disappointment of Tyrion not getting to kick a little bit of ass in Tywin's battle I thought that they seemed to gloss over the entire battle and the whispering woods fight. It would have been nice to see a little bit more action especially as that is quite a major climax section in the books.
Also in the last episode, the scene with Catelyn and Jaime doesn't happen until the very end of the second book, and is quite different (bare in mind I haven't finished book 2 just yet) as I saw it, the scene finishes with Catelyn taking her guards sword and possible killing Jaime which would make sense as
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Just seemed a little odd to put it in so early...
Well keep your expectations in check, early previews suggest Dragons is paced similarly to Crows. Which makes perfect since actually, since they're really intended to be a single book in the series but it got too convoluted and Martin had to split it into two. The good news is instead of Cersei/Jamie/Brienne getting the bulk of the chapters it will be Jon/Dany/Tyrion. Also once they're caught up to speed to where Crows was in the latter half of the book the story will proceed ahead. And finally, while these two books took 10 years for GRRM to write, there were only 2 year waits for Clash and Storm. So now that he's over the hump you can be cautiously optimistic that book 6 will only be a 2-3 year way.
RandV80:
Fair points. However, I remain cautiously optimistic concerning Dance, if only because Martin decided to rewrite nearly the whole thing. Hopefully, he saw what we all did; that he was skirting dangerously close fantasy-soap-Jordan-esque territory.
As for the next instalment, I can only hope you're right. History does indicate as much.
In any case, I am more than happy to allow the woefully under-appreciated R. Scott Bakker to continue to dominate my fantasy-reading habits, as he has for the past few years. My love for him is several degrees beyond practically everyone else, with only a few exceptions.
Glademaster
Well at least this was a hell of a lot better than the adaptation of the Sword of Truth novels. That really screwed the pooch when it came to storyline and books.
No, if you read what I said I actually pointed out that Dune was heavily inspired by real life events (the biography of Lawrence of Arabia), but that didn't make it historically accurate. And the Asimov's Foundation saga is straight up "Roman Empire History in Space", but historical accuracy is still a term that doesn't apply, even though the story deals with the science of history and was written by a historian.
"The beheading of Ned Stark will forever stick out as one of the most shocking moments in television."
"But making the calls in King's Landing is Joffrey, the most despised person on television right now. NOW do you understand why Book 2 is entitled A Clash of Kings?"
"Have you ever seen a suit of armor more badass than The Hound's?"
"This episode, at least, proves that women can have the same virtues and vices as the men, and that's why it doesn't deserve to be dismissed by the likes of Ginia Bellafante."
"The cinematography of the sweeping vistas, the art direction that's created costumes and props that feel right at home in the Seven Kingdoms, the excellent performances from Sean Bean, Peter Dinklage and Mark Addy, these are what people are going to talk about in regards to Game of Thrones for years to come."
Now tell me that's not full of superlatives, fanboy glee and exaggeration. From two different critics on two different outlets. I feel my point is well made and needs no further proof. If you disagree, fair enough.
MetalDooley
Great ending to a great series.I'm delighted with the dragons as if they had looked shit then it could have spoiled the final episode.Roll on July 12th because I need my next fix
Glademaster:
Agreed.I hope the people responsible for Legend of the Seeker watched Game of Thrones and feel ashamed of themselves for what they did to Terry Goodkind's work
MetalDooley:
What did you think of the Gars in the series? I thought they were an awful product of the series low budget. I thought they should have looked like this or some sort of thing like a Zangoose pokemon with wings.
Yeah they looked crap,the pic you posted is pretty much how I imagined them too,but that was more to do with the effects budget than anything else.What annoyed me was how much of the story they blatantly changed/omitted/invented.There was whole episodes that had absolutely nothing to do with the books.It's like they had no respect for the source material at all
Yeah the Jensen and Parentage of certain characters did really piss me off. They skip and mixed in so many books in the two series.
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Sober Thal:
I worry about the casting of Brienne too. I'm afraid she wont be ugly enough. Brienne looks awful in my head and I'm really scared she will be prettied up for television. Like ugly betty style....ooooh shes so "ugly" in her glasses and braces and "WOW" suddenly she is beautiful!
Make her suitably ugly and mannish please. Not a sexy tomboy :<
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The desired qualities of Wisconsin’s football players are well-known: Smart. Tough. Dependable. But it’s the sometimes subtle, know-it-when-you-see-it trait that the Badgers look for in recruiting that has made all the difference in developing UW’s culture.
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MADISON, Wis. — Not long after Paul Chryst became the Wisconsin football coach in 2014, he had an experience unlike any in his 17 years on a college staff.
He visited Chris Orr, a linebacker prospect at DeSoto (Texas) High School, and came face-to-face with perhaps the most elusive piece of the recruiting puzzle.
The It Factor.
Orr has a great background — his father and older brother played in the NFL and another brother is a major-college starter — and had passed muster on the most important characteristics sought by UW coaches.
Smart. Tough. Dependable. Hard-working.
Orr had already committed to the Badgers, driven in part by his desire to break the mold of his family footprint — all Texas-oriented resumes — and make a name for himself under a different spotlight.
Early on in his get-acquainted visit with Orr, Chryst saw The It Factor, that elusive trait that's hard to describe, but you know it when you sense it.
"I go to the school and he's fired up about Wisconsin and he's telling me why," Chryst recalled. "He had a vision of himself and 'Why Wisconsin.' He wanted to be different and be great.
"He took me around his school and I met every teacher. It was unbelievable. I'd never seen a kid do that before, so you knew the kid had something that you were attracted to that had nothing to do with the game of football."
It helps explain why the charismatic Orr became a starter at inside linebacker as a true freshman in 2015, became a pseudo assistant coach while recovering from season-ending knee surgery as a sophomore and is viewed as a prime leader heading into his third year.
Every prospect that comes to UW — including members of the 29-member Class of 2017 that joined the fold Wednesday — has The It Factor to some degree. Sometimes you see it right away. Sometimes it takes years to bubble to the surface.
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The names of hurricanes may change, but one thing seems to stay the same: Misinformation spreads quickly during these dangerous storms.
Hurricane Dorian, an extremely powerful Category 4 storm that has brought misery to the Bahamas since making landfall Sunday, is expected to be no different.
Here’s a sampling of false information, fabricated photos and hoaxes that have accompanied other big name hurricanes. While some of the misleading information — much of which is spread on social media — may be lighthearted, it can also create confusion or lead to dangerous situations.
CLAIM: All shelters and hotels are required to take in pets.
THE FACTS: It depends on the shelter. Before heading to a shelter or hotel, check to make sure that they allow pets. However, the Americans with Disabilities Act does require that hotels and shelters take in service animals, according to FEMA.
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THE FACTS: A portable generator should never be turned on indoors, even if doors and windows are open. Generators release carbon monoxide, which can be deadly. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says to keep a generator at least 20 feet away from the house. Don’t refill the generator with gasoline while it’s still turned on.
CLAIM: Immigrations and Customs Enforcement along with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officials check for citizenship status at shelters.
THE FACTS: FEMA rebutted this claim during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. During Harvey, ICE and CBP released a statement stating that routine noncriminal immigration enforcement operations would not be conducted at evacuation sites or at shelters or food banks.
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“Despite false rumors to the contrary, ICE does not conduct immigration enforcement operations at hurricane evacuation sites or shelters, such as during and immediately after hurricanes,” he said.
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Volume No. 2 Issue No. 27 - Sunday, February 3, 2008
De Dice Crowned Calypso King and Marah Walter is Miss Dominica 2008
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Marah Walter is Miss Dominica 2008.
Thousands of fans were treated to the best of Dominica’s calypsos at the finals of the art form at the Windsor Park stadium. In the wee hours of Sunday morning, De Dice was crowned calypso king winning over nine other strong competitors.
Daddy Chess placed second with Scrunter and Hunter placing third and fourth respectively. This was the fourth time for De Dice, becoming only the third calypsonians to win four crowns. The other two were the Mighty Solo who won in 1973, 1975, 1976 and 1977, and Norman Cyril 'King NC' having won in 1982,1983,1985,and 1988 .
Dice for his part won in 2004, 2005 and 2006. On Friday, Marah Walter was crowned Miss Dominica 2008 as Mas Domnik 2008 celebrations kicked into high gear.
Seven Dominican beauties took part in the competition viewed by over 15 000 at the National stadium.
First runner up was Norrisa Newton with Marva Williams coming in as second runner up.
Marah, who is the daughter of agriculture minister Matthew Walter also won miss photogenic, miss intelligence, and best in evening wear.
Then on Saturday night will be the clash of the calypso giants as nine calypsonians try to unseat reigning calypso King De Hunter. In the hunt for the prestigious title are: three time winners De Dice and Scrunter along with Tarina, Observer, Sandy, The Web, The Sye, Karessah and Daddy Chess.
Daddy Chess has already won two titles in a row that of Soca Monarch and Stardom King of the Tent. His powerful rendition of ‘Forward we Go’ is a crowd favorite and is quickly taking hold all over the land.
The song appeals to Dominicans sense of patriotism and has done quite well against very strong competition from De Dice, Hunter and Scrunter.
Sunday will see the staging of the kiddies festival and the B-mobile Bouyon Festival/ King and Queen of the Band Competition.
Festivities will reach a grand finale with the street jumpup on Monday and Tuesday.
Meanwhile, there are growing appeals to move the traditional date for carnival for a later time in the year to allow for better participation and more time to prepare.
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We’ve also been blessed to foray our knowledge into creating original designs that adhere to our principles.
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Every year billions of pounds of clothing and textiles are put to landfills, and it truly is a travesty when with a bit of ingenuity and an open mind- anything can be transformed into something truly special…which is why, our original pieces are made primarily using vintage materials and fabrics that we have been fortunate to collect and acquire over time.
Our hunt for premium quality vintage pieces that are timeless and unique continues…and we will be posting more of these treasures in our {SHOP}. Remember, you are invited to use code XIXIXI to receive 25% OFF from any purchase, and most of our items are FREE SHIPPING in the US. Don’t be afraid…just something to think about!
The Eye of Faith: Celebrating 8 Years of Hard Work & Mastery!
Style is knowing who you are, what you want, and not giving a damn
-Gore Vidal
So in honour of 8 years of hard work and mastering the illusions of time, we wanted to take a look back at our 8 highest viewed posts that have provided inspiration not only to us, but evidently thousands of others around the world. Many thanks to everyone who has supported The E.O.F. over the years.
8. STYLE {WISE} MENS VINTAGE WORKWEAR INSPIRATION – “YOU BETTER WORK!”
No surprise with this one when looking at our site’s stats! In fact, this is exactly the kind of post The Eye of Faith was built to have inhabit it…a wonderful gallery of prime vintage workwear inspiration photos from actual photographs of the working man from the late 1800s to the 1940s, actual articles of clothing, advertisements, and details that all encapsulate that vintage workwear feel that is so popular at this moment, especially in men’ style!
Since the dawn of civilization, man has been hard at work building the great cities we live in, gathering the food we eat, and finding the resources we need to stay afloat on this mad wild planet. It’s never been easy, but someone’s got to do it. So next time you’re walking down the sidewalk, or taking a stroll down the grocery isle, save a thought for the hoards of men and women who have put their blood, sweat, and tears into making the vision of this world a reality for us all.
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This post is from our STYLE {WISE} posts which provide unique style wisdom to get your through the daze…
7. VINTAGE RED CARPET ROMANCES: BRAD PITT + GWYNETH.
This one is a bit more surprising, but in an age of celebrity obsession, I guess it really shouldn’t be that much of a shock. These two were definitely the IT couple for a hot moment, and their matching hairstyles and 90s minimal cool definitely seem to have struck a chord and we can’t forget.
It’s like youth on fire with these two. Their energy is obviously contagious between the two, and they really seem symbiotic to eachother . . . . most of the time, at least. All good thing must come to an end, and it’s always best to leave the relationship at a high, we get that.
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Keep meaning to do more of these VINTAGE RED CARPET ROMANCE posts (Julliette Lewis & Brad Pitt were another favourite, but just didn’t cut the Top 8) , and there are a few couples on the To-Do List, but please, if you have a suggestion…leave it in the COMMENTS below!
6. E.O.F. STYLE DIVINITY : MAILA NURMI AKA {VAMPIRA}
This one was no surprise, however! MAILA NURMI was destined to a be a part of The E.O.F. Style Idol & Divinity Squad, and to keep growing that section of our blog over the years. These posts are FIRE!
Especially, this one….Maila Nurmi or VAMPIRA, as most of us know her, was a pioneer; a groundbreaker of individuality and style. Can you imagine being a woman in the 1950s and living the life she did?! She was good friends with James Dean, was the first ever horror show host (and was nominated for an Emmy in 1954 for her work), and was an overall bad ass B . . .
“Vampira is a kind of entity (and you can call her a woman though she is androgynous) that survives in this world. I, Maila Nurmi, am not.”
-Maila Nurmi {read more}
This is a fabulous post full of dozens of wicked photos of this iconic legend. If you want to read more, click here.
5. GENDER BENDER: YOU’RE IN ANDROGYNY
We do always have our finger on the pulse . . . and its really no surprise to us that today on November 11, 2019 – the concept of androgyny is a hot topic and continues to shift the main stream perception of individuality and style.
No longer are the rules of gender as it relates to style so stuck. Concepts of unisex wardrobing is being embraced by not only street culture, but high fashion, as well.
This is one of our earliest posts, and a testament to the fascination our society has with gender and its role in our identities as people.
“As you know, I’m androgynous. I can wear a jacket that most guys wouldn’t put on. But you make it in guys’ sizes, and suddenly they’re wearing them. I think styles should get back to getting people to wear things that look so good that they don’t care.”
-Steven Tyler {Read More Here}
4. E.O.F. STYLE DIVINITY : NEILE ADAMS AKA {WOMAN FROM THE SOUTH}
Such a good sign that Ms. Neile Adams made her way into the TOP 5 Most Viewed Posts…another E.O.F. STYLE DIVINITY – one who doesn’t get enough recognition in the mainstream, which is exactly why this post was made in the first place!
She was the long time love and companion of action superstar Steve McQueen, and an integral force in helping him make it through the wild rollercoaster of Hollywood. Born in the Philipines, she was an actress, model, and stylista in her own right!
So glad so many people found their way to her beautiful face. Make sure to check this one out!
“My life and times with Steve had spanned twenty-four years. More than half my life at the time of his death. They were over now. Gone. Finished.
That he loved me and that I had been the most important person in his life, I have no doubt. That I loved him and that he had been the most influential person in mine cannot be denied.
Good-bye, my friend. You are missed. It sure was one hell of a ride.”
Neile Adams {read more here}
3. {DO-IT-RIGHT} – HOW TO MEN’S VINTAGE-STYLE [SWIMSUIT INSPIRATION]
Of course, a vintage mens swimwear inspiration post would make its way into the TOP 3! We have had many of the years {check out our posts tagged SURF}, but this one seems to be the one that keeps people visiting year after year…amazing!
This is a unique post because we showcased some of our prime vintage photographs of dudes from the 1910s – 1960s in classic swim trunks and showed how the {PAST} has infiltrated the {PRESENT} in contemporary brands and their then latest swim trunk styles.
Just another testament to keeping it classic…you’ll never have to worry about a thing when it comes to getting dressed each and every day. With a world full of stresses…who needs anymore?
By looking through dozens of vintage photographs, advertising, fashion plates, and magazines we were able to sum up certain elements that characterized each era:
1910s-20s: Slouchy, Simple, Graphic
1930s-40s: Athletic & Form Fitting
1950s-60s: Cut, Colour, Pattern
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2. E.O.F. STYLE IDOL – ALAIN DELON
America had James Dean…France has Alain Delon. Bad Ass to the max. Handsome AF. Stylish doesn’t even cut it when explaining this savant of style, which is exactly why we have worshiped this idol consistently for years, and apparently you do too!
Number 2 on the list; it was so cool to find out that Alain Delon was receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Cannes Film Festival this past year for his contribution to cinema. So, who’s gonna get him a trophy for his contribution to style? Man or woman – who doesn’t want to dress like Alain Delon?
Want more Alain Delon content from us? Click here for more!
Thanks for sticking it out to see NUMBER ONE!!!
But, first some honorable mentions:
BAD GIRL BEAUTY: VINTAGE MUGSHOT MAKEUP + HAIR INSPIRATION
{PHOTOBLAST} DO WHAT THOU WILT . . . [ 11.15.13 / VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHIC INSPIRATION]
{STYLE-WISE} DO IT RIGHT! VINTAGE DRESS THE PART – KURT COBAIN’S “HEART SHAPED BOX”
TIME FOR NO. 1
ANITA PALLENBERG: E.O.F. DIVINITY.
There hasn’t been a single day since posting this that someone from around the world hasn’t perused this post about the iconic and divine – Anita Pallenberg!
“I’d wear that [second-hand red fox fur coat] to modelling jobs with just my underwear, boots and a bag because you couldn’t leave your clothes lying around. The other models would steal them!” -Anita Pallenberg
A model in the early 60s, Anita made her way into movies and rock and roll. Starring in such cult favourites as Barbarella, Performance, and Candy. We love her spin as the great tyrant in Barbarella, where her voice is dubbed yet her appeal cuts through the screen. This exotic alien villian is the perfect yin to Jane Fonda’s yang in the 1968 cult classic.
Style maven supreme, rock goddess, bohemian queen – this is the internet’s best look at the ultimate E.O.F. Style Divinity. This post was designed to showcase some of the best Anita Pallenberg content this planet did ever see…so check her out ad take in her wild energy!
So, there you have it! 8 TOP POSTS for 8 YEARS of THE EYE OF FAITH!!!
Over ONE MILLION VIEWS and over ONE THOUSAND POSTS!
We could never have done it without you, so thank you so much for your viewership, your support, your contributions, and your faith!
Looking forward to many more…
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Cloudbusting with Kate Bush and Bad Ass Thinker Wilhelm Reich!!!
May 31, 2019 {theEye} Leave a comment
When it comes to artists like Kate Bush, they are truly few and far between, if not non-existent! Her music is a wild ride between pop, rock, experimental, and the ethereal sounds of another universe. Haunting, delicate, and slightly witchy… Bush’s music explores unusual themes that many other artists would dare no even attempt.
One of our favourite obscure references is featured in the video “Cloudbusting” which was conceived by iconic British director Terry Gilliam and Kate Bush, herself. Watching the video for the first time, you feel like you are watching a breathtaking sci-fi fantasy accompanied by Bush’s haunting music. However, this story is far from fiction, and is in fact based on the most incredible stranger than fiction true story of scientist Wilhelm Reich.
The video depicts Kate Bush as son, Peter Reich (whose memoir Book of Dreams was an immense inspiration for Bush), watching as his father (played by Donald Sutherland) develops an intricate machine the “Cloudbuster” before men in black come knocking on the door taking the father and destroying his laboratory, as well as taking many of his files for “safe keeping”. As their car drives off, the boy turns the cloud buster to the sky and unleashes a downpour of rain as his father drives off as a captive into the distance.
Strangely enough, this device was absolutely real, and even documented in local newspapers of the time. The basis of its functioning was the concept of “orgone” – an esoteric energy seen as a universal force that could be harvested. This energy was theorized to be an invisible mass of living energy that is omnipresent throughout the universe.
His research garnered a fairly strong following in the United States, with many students who congregated at the Organon Ranch Laboratory (now the Willhelm Reich Museum) located in Rangeley, Maine.
Interestingly Organon is also the formal name of Greek philosopher Aristotle’s works on logic given by his followers…
Being able to control this energy, Reich believed could help people be cured of various diseases or mental health issues (the Orgone Accumulator – a small room made from layers of metal and wood), as well as controlling the weather – hence the Cloudbuster!
The most famous incident would have to be The Maine Blueberry Experiment which took place in Bangor, Maine at 10am on July 6, 1953 after a devastating drought which was directly affecting the blueberry crops that summer. Reich and his assistants set up the cloud buster – a set of hollow tubes suspended over a small cylinder. Later that night
“Rain began to fall shortly after ten o’clock Monday evening, first as a drizzle and then by midnight as a gentle, steady rain. Rain continued throughout the night, and a rainfall of 0.24 inches was recorded in Ellsworth the following morning…The queerest looking clouds you ever saw began to form soon after they got the thing rolling.”
Eyewitness, Bangor Maine (1953)
Much like other great minds in our world, Reich was punished for his forbidden knowledge of the available resources of our universe, and was promptly punished. A salacious article written by Ms. Mildred Eddie Brady also helped to taint his reputation painting him as a sex crazed mad scientist. He was accused of being a communist (of course), and seen as a bit of a loon when he made comments about U.F.O.s (which we all know exist…). Eventually, the U.S. Food an Drug Administration obtained a federal injunction, and seized and destroyed all orgone-related material.
Reich was put into prison where he would die at the age of 60 in 1957. Thankfully, his knowledge has not been forgotten…although you know they wish it were!!!
Reich was definitely a rebel figurehead; part of the second generation of psychoanalysts after Sigmund Freud. His most distinctive works included Character Analysis (1933), The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), and The Sexual Revolution (1936). We definitely always characterize the idea of a sexual revolution with the free love era of the 60s and 70s, but this guy was far beyond his times. During the 1968 student riots in Paris and Berlin, protesters even threw copies of The Mass Psychology of Fascism at the police!
He was quite the activist and fought for the abolition of laws against abortion and homosexuality, free birth control advice and contraceptives, health protection for women and children, day cares in factories, and the abolition of laws prohibiting sex education. And this was in the 1930s, and people are still fighting for the same things!
Interestingly enough, Kate Bush may not have even known about this story if she hadn’t stumbled upon A Book of Dreams (1973) – a memoir written by Reich’s son Peter Reich by coincidence in 1976.
“I was inspired by a book that I first found on a shelf nearly nine years ago. It was just calling me from the shelf, and when I read it I was very moved by the magic of it. It’s about a special relationship between a young son and his father. The book was written from a child’s point of view. His father is everything to him; he is the magic in his life, and he teaches him everything, teaching him to be open-minded and not to build up barriers… But there’s nothing he can do about his father being taken away, he is completely helpless. But it’s very much more to do with how the son does begin to cope with the whole loneliness and pain of being without his father. It is the magic moments of a relationship through a child’s eyes, but told by a sad adult.”
-Kate Bush
Thank god she did, because when we first stumbled upon this masterpiece we were taken away to another world that is as much fantasy as it is real life…
Funny enough, she isn’t the only rebel poet to be inspired by this story. Punk icon Patti Smith, was inspired by the book’s scene where Peter is convinced a fleet of flying saucers are skimming his boarding school’s lacrosse field to reunite him with his imprisoned father in her 9 minute epic “Birdland”…
Sad that much like Nikola Tesla, or our recent {STYLE IDOL} Jack Parsons, knowledge and powers that could greatly benefit our world as a whole have to be held captive by greedy forces…
However, if you have that rebel spirit within YOU ready to soar – let it free, and let it be!!!
Definitely if you found all this interesting, please look more into Orgone, Organon, and everything you can Wilhelm Reich!!!
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{STYLE IDOL} Jack Parsons – The Original Rocket Man!
February 26, 2019 {theEye} 2 Comments
Scientists often go unrecognized in the realm of style, and there’s definitely no one more deserving to be added to our roster of Idols & Divinities to worship than the original rocket man- Jack Parsons.
Like we always say, style is more than the clothes you wear, its how you carry on your life with purpose and integrity, and Mr. Parsons definitely didn’t hold back! Devilishly handsome, in tuned with his own special brand of spirituality, and ridiculously intelligent – he is definitely an idol worth worshiping.
His story is a strange one that verges on being absolutely unbelievable. Often referred to as the ultimate mad scientist, Parson’s research in the field of rocketry basically gave birth to NASA, and allowed for mankind to release itself from the atmosphere and deep into space.
A true Hollywood boy, Parsons was born on Oct 2, 1914 in Los Angeles and quickly became fascinated by rockets inspired by the many pulp sci-fi magazines he would read as a young boy. It is also said that as a child he would perform rituals to manifest the devil in his bedroom…
This obsession grew and grew over time, and after graduating High School, the young man alongside his best friend Ed Forman linked up with Frank Malina, a graduate student at the California Institute of Technology- forming what they would call “The Suicide Squad”…
Whilst the idea of rockets were perceived as nothing more than sci-fi fantasy, him and his peers moved forward with their experiments and research, proving that Parsons was a natural genius when it came to developing chemicals and mixing them in exactly the right amounts that these reactions could be explosive, but controllable. This knowledge was later used by NASA….
Of course, with this knowledge, came questions and queries of who exactly was Jack Parsons, and what the man had uncovered was shocking beyond belief.
While Parsons was pioneering rocket science, he was also an avid follower of occult circles in Hollywood. He was an attendant of the Ordo Templi Orients, and took part in meetings led by the father of modern day occultism – Aleister Crowley. He was even appointed West Coast leader of the OTO by Crowley himself.
Through the money he was making in his rocket business, he bought a mansion in Pasadena which became a party house to facilitate occult rituals and orgies.
Frank Malina’s wife said that the mansion was “like walking into a Fellini movie. Women were walking around in diaphanous togas and weird make-up, some dressed up like animals, like a costume party.” Malina shrugged off his partner’s eccentricities, telling his wife, “Jack is into all kinds of things.”
These stories led to Parsons being a bit of liability to the government, and he was paid out his shares of Aerojet, and was cast out from the field he had himself developed!
This led to a further delve into the occult. In 1946, he would host a series of ritual rites which he called the ‘Babalon Working’ which he performed alongside Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The ritual was performed from January to March in effort to manifest a incarnation of Babalon- a divine feminine spirit described by Aleister Crowley in this 1917 novel Moonchild.
After the first series of these rituals, Parsons was introduced to Marjorie Cameron who he regarded as the manifestation they were attempting to summon. An unsuccessful attempt was made to conceive a child through sex magic (which Aleister Crowley himself regarded as foolish), but nevertheless Cameron was regarded now as the Scarlet Woman / Babylon and the two quickly married.
You can spot Marjorie in Curtis Harrington’s “The Wormwood Star” and “Night Tide” starring Dennis Hopper. She also plays a pivotal role in Kenneth Anger’s 1954 art short “The Inaugaration of the Pleasure Dome” and is renowned as an influential and groundbreaking artist of her day.
His alienation from the world of rocket science, led him to work on explosives for the film industry, while the FBI still paid close attention to his movements.
On June 1952, Parsons was killed by an unplanned detonation in his home laboratory. He was 37.
Cameron and others who knew the man doubt that this genius would ever have made such a fatal mistake. A U.F.O. sighting above Washington D.C. just after his death, led her to believe this was Parsons making communication. Unfortunately her mental state began to deteriorate, and in 1952 she gathered a small clique of practitioners to create a cult called “The Children” whose aim was to create a mixed-race society of “moon children” who would be devoted to the Egyptian god Horus.
A new series on CBS All Access called Strange Angel starring Jack Reynor was just released last year, and attempts to bring this fascinating story to the world. We haven’t had a chance to delve into the series, but it looks like it captures Parson’s dapper charms, the mysterious underworld he treaded through, and the science he developed that changed the world!
I find it very interesting that this story is coming so strongly out of the woodwork, and being explored by a major mainstream network like CBS. Perhaps they are telling us something . . .
STRANGE ANGEL РPictured (l-r): Bella Heathcote as Susan Parsons; Jack Reynor as Jack Parsons; Rupert Friend as Ernest Donovan. Photo Cr: Frank W. Ockenfels III/CBS ̩2018 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Parson’s work in science and the occult are fascinating because they are usually regarded as in opposition of each other. However, it seems like Parsons was able to tread the line between the two, and realize the two are related, if not the same.
Parsons will be known for being a true rebel, a playboy, a genius, and one of a kind of spirit that still permeates today. If there was anyone who represented Hollywood Babylon, it is most definitely him!
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The Eye of Faith Presents “THE VISITORS” @Supercrawl 2018
2018 was such an exciting year for us in fashion, and our collection “The Visitors” was the perfect way to cap it off, at the annual Supercrawl festival here in Hamilton, ON.
This collection was our most encompassing yet, with 13 looks on 13 models, rocking the runway in the hot September sun! We really wanted to go for a more eclectic party vibe this time around, and I think we really captured the essence of what we were looking to achieve!
The collection was inspired by the ABBA song “The Visitors” – a wicked disco jam, about the anxiety of having guests showing up at your home for a party! Strangers surrounded by your books, paintings, and furniture…it can leave you in a quite a tizzy.
Disco glamour, divas, glitter, and rock n roll definitely played a hand, and we really wanted to play off the idea of visitors – who perhaps could be from a different dimension; so, there’s also a bit of space and sci-fi moments happening throughout.
Each piece is one of a kind, handmade, and uses vintage fabrics and materials.
Styled by The Eye of Faith
Makeup Up by Janet Granados & Claudia Alaimo
Hair by Hexe Noire & Poison IV
Best of all, we got to end the show with our girl Amanda Lear’s “Fashion Pack”, who was another inspiration for this collection!
For more information on any of these pieces, feel free to email us:
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Anthony Joshua taking tips from Klitschko ahead of Ruiz rematch
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Britain’s Anthony Joshua has been taking advice on his training regime and diet from former heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko ahead of his title rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr. in Saudi Arabia on Dec. 7.
Mexican-American Ruiz produced one of boxing’s biggest upsets when he dethroned the previously undefeated world champion Joshua with a seventh-round stoppage at New York’s Madison Square Garden in June.
Klitschko was defeated by Joshua in 2017 at Wembley Stadium with a technical knockout and the two boxers have stayed in touch even after the Ukrainian retired later that year at the age of 41.
“He said loads of stuff to me, Wlad was definitely ahead of the game. He’s more disciplined than me, he’s more diplomatic,” Joshua told British media.
“He was giving me dietary and training advice and that is maybe what people are talking about now when they see a difference in my body. Maybe that’s why — because I’ve adapted some of his teaching — my weight may fluctuate.”
Joshua was dropped to the canvas four times in the June bout by Ruiz and the 30-year-old Briton is looking for redemption having triggered a rematch clause, admitting his first defeat had made him a smarter fighter.
The second WBA, IBF and WBO title showdown has been dubbed the ‘Clash on the Dunes’ but Joshua, a former Olympic champion, said the belts would not define his legacy.
“There’s nothing I’ve missed about being world champion,” Joshua said. “I’ve always said the belt should never define the man. I walked as a champion before I even had a belt.
“This is fighting. One loss doesn’t take the spots off a cheetah. We don’t play games when it comes to boxing, we’re serious and after I took the loss I’ve had time to reflect.
“I now have things to prove to myself. I want to take it more seriously because I’m going to that next level.”
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Winter is here: How 'Game of Thrones' took over American politics
By Judy Kurtz - 05/19/19 07:30 AM EDT
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The world is still waiting to find out who ends up on the Iron Throne of Westeros, but in Washington, one thing is certain: "Game of Thrones" reigns supreme among lawmakers, candidates and much of the nation’s capital.
The HBO series, based on the Song of Ice and Fire books by George R.R. Martin, has become required weekly viewing for the political world since its premiere in 2011. As the show nears its final episode on Sunday, the buzz surrounding the drama has grown hotter than dragon fire.
And politicians from both sides of the aisle use the fantasy mega-hit’s shared cultural vocabulary to help make their points. President Trump Donald John TrumpSanders apologizes to Biden for supporter's op-ed Jayapal: 'We will end up with another Trump' if the US doesn't elect progressive Democrats: McConnell impeachment trial rules a 'cover up,' 'national disgrace' MORE has more than once sent out "Thrones"-inspired images and messages on his Twitter account, including warning Iran that "sanctions are coming," a play on the Stark family’s famous "Winter is coming" house words. When Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Ann WarrenJayapal: 'We will end up with another Trump' if the US doesn't elect progressive Former health insurance executive: Current system is bankrupting country The American disease and death bowls MORE (D-Mass.) wanted to make a point about income inequality and entrenched power last month, she wrote an op-ed titled "The World Needs Fewer Cersei Lannisters."
"It’s a show that in its first five years really caught our attention by really defying storytelling convention," says Anthony Gierzynski, professor and chair of the political science department at the University of Vermont. "Just when we think that the good guy or the side that we’re rooting for is going to get ahead, something horrible happens," says Gierzynski, author of "The Political Effects of Entertainment Media: How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Perspectives."
In the rollercoaster, often-topsy turvy world of Capitol Hill, that unpredictability could be strikingly relatable. Or maybe it’s the constant, bloody clashes and Machiavellian scheming that seem all too familiar.
"In this age of intense polarization, in terms of rhetoric and the way partisans see the other side as a threat to the country, the story where that’s definitely the case in 'Game of Thrones' — that might really resonate. As well as the whole struggle for power," says Gierzynski.
"I think from the very beginning, it’s all about kingship," says Jana Matthews. Five years ago, the English associate professor developed her own "Game of Thrones" course at Rollins College based on the book and TV series. The show, she says, "does just enough historically to cement its place in the world of fantasy and also the pre-modern world. You can enjoy it and analyze it critically from that end, that lens. But at the same time, it’s close enough to some moments to see patterns of contemporary American politics and political history that we are able to read it as an allegory."
The fictional series, which has set records for both legitimate viewership and bootleg pirating, has for years spilled into the real world when lawmakers and politicians seek to use it to connect with a wide audience.
In 2014, then-Democratic House hopeful Seth Moulton Seth MoultonOvernight Defense: Iran crisis eases as Trump says Tehran 'standing down' | Dems unconvinced on evidence behind Soleimani strike | House sets Thursday vote on Iran war powers Congress reacts to US assassination of Iranian general Key moments in the 2020 Democratic presidential race so far MORE rallied supporters in Massachusetts with a "Thrones" reference, tweeting, "Sorry Game of Thrones fans, we will not be settling the #ma6 election by trial by combat. Come knock doors this weekend instead!"
Three years later, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich Newton (Newt) Leroy GingrichMORE (R-Ga.) compared special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) Swan MuellerSchiff: Trump acquittal in Senate trial would not signal a 'failure' Jeffries blasts Trump for attack on Thunberg at impeachment hearing Live coverage: House Judiciary to vote on impeachment after surprise delay MORE’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election to the headline-making series.
"I think this is closer to 'Game of Thrones' than it is to anything normal," Gingrich told Fox News's Sean Hannity Sean Patrick HannityHypocrisy is the currency of the realm for GOP in the age of Trump GOP threatens to weaponize impeachment witnesses amid standoff Trump wants To 'deescalate,' but will his supporters let him? MORE. "This is a classic story of an outsider trying to reform an institution, and the institution, in this case the deep state doing everything it can to destroy the person who has usurped power," Gingrich added, referring to Trump.
Following the completion of Mueller’s probe, which did not find evidence to accuse the Trump campaign of conspiracy with Moscow, the president himself tweeted victory in a similar style to "Game of Thrones" promotional images.
"Game over," the April message read. HBO issued a statement following the tweet, saying, "Though we can understand the enthusiasm for ‘Game of Thrones’ now that the final season has arrived, we still prefer our intellectual property not be used for political purposes."
It’s unclear if Trump is actually a fan of the show. The White House didn’t return ITK’s request for comment about whether he’s among the millions of "Thrones" viewers.
With a massive audience — last week’s penultimate episode raked in more than 18 million viewers in two airings — being clued into what’s happening in Winterfell or the Iron Islands might just make political sense.
Former Rep. John Delaney John Kevin DelaneyElizabeth Warren moves 'bigly' to out-trump Trump DNC goof: Bloomberg should be on debate stage Bloomberg decides to skip Nevada caucuses MORE (D-Md.) doesn’t watch the show himself — although the 2020 White House hopeful’s staffers are big fans, we hear — but tweeted out a CNN story comparing him to “Thrones” character Eddison Tollett. “My staff tells me this is a good thing,” Delaney, a 2020 White House hopeful wrote. “Everyone liked Edd. They also tell me that we’re not renaming our Maryland HQ ‘Castle Black.’”
Last month, at a Democratic leadership press conference, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Hakeem Sekou JeffriesWhite House appoints GOP House members to advise Trump's impeachment team Schiff huddles in Capitol with impeachment managers Sunday shows - All eyes on Senate impeachment trial MORE (N.Y.) said, "The founding fathers did not want a system where a king was in charge. Donald Trump appears to believe that he is a king. This is not Westeros. It's Washington, D.C. "
But attempts to serve up some "Thrones" hot takes can backfire. Earlier this week, Warren, a 2020 presidential candidate, pushed back on talk that she revealed a "Game of Thrones" spoiler while discussing student loan debt during a speech in Philadelphia, quipping that "it’s a little hard to do a spoiler 21 hours after the program aired."
Dodging spoilers like Arya Stark avoiding falling walls in King’s Landing is John Dickerson’s mission ahead of Sunday. The “60 Minutes” correspondent and former “CBS This Morning” co-host counts him and his wife among “Game of Thrones’” watchers. The pair hasn’t seen the last three episodes because of work, but has hatched a gameplan in time for the finale.
“We’re going to catch some shows Friday and Saturday to get caught up. We have largely remained spoiler-free somehow and so all of the upset, trouble and pain that people have been feeling we have in store for us before the final devastating blow on Sunday,” Dickerson tells ITK.
“Winter is coming with the intensity of a Bouillon cube,” quips Dickerson.
The show has, however, seen its share of backlash over the years — particularly during its final eighth season.
Actress Jessica Chastain was among those who called out the series earlier this month for suggesting that the character of Sansa Stark, played by Sophie Turner, drew strength from her history of being a rape victim. ”Rape is not a tool to make a character stronger," the “It: Chapter Two” star wrote to her more than 700,000 Twitter followers.
Critics have also decried Emilia Clarke's downward spiral in her role as Daenerys Targaryen from a fierce leader to a "mad queen" in the closing episodes. "Sadly, 'Game of Thrones' never fixed its problem with women," a Thursday headline in USA Today read, with TV critic Kelly Lawler writing, "It's painfully clear that 'Thrones' is a series created by (and in large part written for) men."
A Change.org petition to reshoot season 8 “with competent writers” had more than 1 million signatures as of Sunday afternoon.
So how will Washington cope once someone finally claims the throne once and for all...and the show’s over?
"I think we’ll do what we always do: you’ll run the narrative to the end of the watercooler and then we’ll move on to something else," Matthews says with a laugh.
"This has been a show that has transfixed the nation and transfixed the world and for really good reason," the medieval literature expert adds. "I think it’s really given us some interesting things to think about and to analyze critically about ourselves and the world around us. But ultimately, we’ll move on to another show."
But what is dead may never die, and Dothraki or Valyrian speakers might not actually have to move too far from the series — HBO has said a prequel starring Naomi Watts is in the works.
Former "Star Trek" actor George Takei had his own concerns about what’ll happen once the sun sets on the Seven Kingdoms for the last time.
"I worry that after Game of Thrones ends, all our complaining is going to be redirected at the various Democratic candidates," Takei wrote on Twitter on Thursday. "Keep it positive, friends."
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We are who we meet
Design, Environment
The Rural Ambassador
From a small farm in Wales, the phenomenally sunny Anna Felton, runs two businesses as well as the occasional marathon. The title of her recent Do lecture says it all: “How do you manage 6 brands, a knitwear company and a flock of sheep? And still have a life.” As someone who grew up on a sheep farm in Cornwall, I’m in awe of her efforts to build vibrant rural economies: with Monkstone, she uses wool from her boyfriend’s family farm to make gorgeous knitwear (who knew it was possible to salivate over a sweater?), while with Dewberry PR, she spreads the word about all the good, beautiful things happening outside of the metropolises. So milkmaids and farmboys, here she is, the one, the only, Anna Felton.
THIS YEAR’S LESSON
That you can never sleep. If you want to make your business work you need to be 100% focused on your brand and ideas. I want to tell the story of farmers and the wool industry even more. You need to think outside the box to be different, personal and beautiful. People remember stories and not facts and this is something I try to work out in marketing strategies all the time. There are so many new brands, you need to stand out. It’s a challenge. But one I love.
I have taken to bread making and I am trying to bake the perfect loaf. But on a work level, my burning question would be to crack time management and to allow myself to be as creative as possible, but not to scare people away. I try to question all that I do, so that I can get better.
THIS YEAR’S MOSTINSPIRINGTHING
It would have to be Sean Carasso Founder of Falling Whistles. At the last Do Lectures, he totally blew me away with his drive and passion. Passion to make a difference by using an incredible brand identity and vision, being supported by friends and creatives, and spreading his love for what he does and the changes he wants to make. It was just awe inspiring.
MAKING THE WHAT-NEXT DECISION
Most of my ideas come to me when driving, something I do a lot with my PR agency. I am lucky as I work for many beautifully minded companies that inspire me to think differently. I pick my projects based on the teams I am asked to meet with and the stories they tell me. I only ever work for companies that I believe in.
In terms of Monkstone, I want to bridge a gap between farmers and creatives. I want to talk to as many UK brands to make them understand the importance of manufacturing in the UK. Later this year, I am launching For Flock Sake; an exciting co operative of farmers, manufactures and businesses. I want to give the wool board a run for their money!
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Tag: Kirk Ferentz
The Tape, The Tape, The Tape – Michigan loses at Iowa, 10 yards from 10-0
The mood amongst the large gathering of Michigan fans who made the trip to Iowa City was one of concern and annoyance. I spent a large portion of the night looking at others in Maize and Blue shaking my head in disbelief. Iowa’s only viable path for winning a game against a vastly superior Wolverine squad was unfolding in front of our eyes. The evening turned on a punt, which had to be Kirk Ferentz’s dream scenario. Late in the first half Ron Coluzzi pinned Michigan at their 1 yard line. Two plays later a ridiculous safety turned an annoying 10-0 lead into a contest. Iowa then scored again to make the score 10-8 at halftime. Ferentz and his Hawkeyes had the exact game they needed: a slop fest.
The Iowa offense put up 9 points through 58 minutes of play. Michigan’s lead was just two at that juncture thanks to the offense’s worst outing of the year. Speight had uncharacteristically misfired on one open deep shot after another, any of which would’ve sealed the game. Chris Evans averaged 6.5 yards per carry on 8 touches, but was noticeably absent in the final drives of the game. In spite of the offensive struggles, Michigan’s defense made the play that should have closed out the game. Taco Charlton hit CJ Beathard as he released a deep pass and Channing Stribling intercepted the under thrown ball on Michigan’s 16 yard line. With 1:54 left in the game, Michigan’s offense trotted on to the field 10 yards away from pulling out a win on the road and headed to 10-0. They were just 10 yards away.
This team had been in this position before. Against Michigan State in 2015, the Michigan defense came up with a huge stop and the offense took over with 1:47 on the clock. Again, 10 yards away from sealing a win. Twice in the last two seasons the team has failed to pick up 10 yards when it truly mattered to seal a football game. Understand that many many factors contributed to this loss and this is not to short change any of them. BUT, despite the poor offensive play and the truly appalling officiating the Wolverines had the ball and the lead with under two minutes to go. Victory was in their grasp and it slipped away.
The Final Offensive Series
Let’s take a look at that final offensive series starting with 1st and 10 on the Michigan 16 yard line.
Eddie McDoom is circled and DeVeon Smith is the RB. Desmond King (#14) and Bo Bower (#41) call out the formation and the defensive backfield adjusts for the sweep. Based on how this play unfolded it wouldn’t have mattered which running back (Smith, Higdon, Evans, or Isaac) was receiving the carry. Here’s why:
McDoom motions across the formation like a jet sweep. Iowa’s defense responds to this by doing the exact opposite of what we’ve seen in previous weeks. The corner responsible for McDoom does not go flying across the formation in pursuit and the linebackers do not shift at all. Instead, the safety comes up to take McDoom and everyone else stays home.
If McDoom gets the ball I think there is a decent chance he gets the corner. Instead Smith is plowing into two unblocked linebackers and King. Any yardage gained here is a miracle as four offensive players are blocking against seven defenders.
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Urban Bay View Is Unique
Very urban, newly remodeled, with great views and interesting history.
By Michael Horne - Oct 13th, 2016 04:39 pm
Urban Bay View. Photo by Michael Horne.
In 2013 Gerry’s Diamond Tap, a classic South Side bar, closed at this location after 25 years in business. The old building at 2301 S. Logan Ave. (originally 99 Logan Ave.) replaced an earlier structure on the site in 1897, and since that time was for the most part a neighborhood spot, operated by folks like Kazimir Goral for the benefit of the locals.
Bay View in the late 19th and early 20th century was not much of a draw for folks from other parts of town. Outside of Kinnickinnic Avenue, an old Indian trail, it did not lie on the path to any other destination, so places like this one were outposts among the many small houses, the cement block manufacturing concerns, the sausage makers and the numerous foundries and heavy industries that employed the mostly immigrant locals.
And so it stayed until recent years, when an explosion of restaurants in Walker’s Point helped fill a gap between Downtown and Bay View. Gradually, the old Bay View taverns started reinventing themselves, and thus we come to this building, located at the southwest corner of E. Lincoln and S. Logan avenues. Urban Bay View opened this month.
There are two ways of taking over an old bar. One is to operate it as is, spending much of your time and money chasing after the repairs that are required practically every time you turn the key.
The other is to follow the approach used here by Paul Jonas, who also owns the Tonic Tavern in Bay View. He gutted this joint upstairs and down, and then put the place back together again with a spare aesthetic and a few whimsical touches, like the use of old tin ceilings and walls. The old bar has maple flooring and a homey atmosphere, if your home happens to be painted grey. Cement and ironwork are used for a few tables and accents, as are old pieces of wood which have been turned into beer rests and foot rests. Get down on the floor and note some very creative recycling — the legs of the tables are constructed from the miles of pipe Jonas ripped out when he upgraded the HVAC system. If there is a homey side to industrial chic, you will find it here.
The building’s upgrades include an accessible ramp that winds around a courtyard to the west of the bar. This zone awaits landscaping, and it looks like the sliding glass door on the east of the building deserves a deck itself. These things can wait.
What is important is that the place is fully stocked, with numerous tap beers housed downstairs in two coolers. The bar also features cocktails on tap, which is a relatively new phenomenon. But for those of us who must wait while watching a bartender craft an Old Fashioned (or, worse, a Bloody Mary) when all we want to do is to order a stinking beer, well this phenomenon is most welcome.
The beverages so offered include a Black Manhattan, Averna Amaro, Gin No. 2301, Liquor 43, Luzardo Marachini and other potables I have never heard of.
There is a little window behind the bar where the bartender can keep an eye on the place, and a cooler that sells bottled beer. The light fixtures are contemporary takes on classic designs. All in all, things are spare here, with little to litter the walls.
There is a memorial tribute to the owner’s father, who was a legendary golfer on the Whitnall Park links. Urban Jonas gets his due, and we get a hint as to how this bar, Urban Bay View, got its name.
Thanks to a number of quirks of geography and history, this bar has virtually unparalleled views. The views are not of much in particular, but they are big ones. If it’s a sunny day, you’ll know it sure enough. To the north, a circular parking ramp encloses the Bay View Dog Park, where people drive their dogs in vehicles to be walked here. This used to be a baseball diamond before the intrusion of the Lake Parkway and its ramp, and this is why “Diamond” appeared in the bar’s name for many years and owners. To the east is a large vacant lot that has been the site of much speculation about its future. But for now it is a vast plain, used for soccer. A glimpse under the parkway ramp reveals a large black structure that turns out to be the huge mound of salt that will be spread over our streets this winter, thus accelerating the ruin of streets, bridges and brick work throughout the region. Beats shoveling!
Also to the east, straight down Lincoln Ave., is a piece of kinetic sculpture belonging to the City of Milwaukee. It is the Wind Turbine operated by the Port of Milwaukee, and it makes for an entertainment, on a slow afternoon, to watch its blades spin round and round.
I’ll have another, please. I see the propellers spinning, but I’m not leaving here until that dang thing finally takes off.
Capital Brewery Supper Club
Central Waters Mudpuppy Porter
Great Lakes Oktoberfest
North Coast Scrimshaw
Stone BB Arrogant Bastard
3 Floyds Yum-Yum
Ballast Point Sculpin
Metropolitan Magnetron
Sprecher Black Bavarian
Finch's
Karben 4 Fantasy Factory
Lakefront Riverwest Stein Beer
McKenzie's Cider
Name: Urban Bay View
Location: 2301 S. Logan Avenue, Milwaukee
Neighborhood: Bay View
Subdivision: Milwaukee Iron Company’s Addition
Website: http://urbanbayview.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/urbanbayview/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/urbanbayview
Description: Single family, 2-story that was remodeled inside and out in early 2016. Brand new plumbing throughout.
Restrooms: Men’s and women’s are both brand new and well fitted.
Year Established: Opened in 2016 by Paul Jonas, owner Tonic Tavern on Kinnickinnic. [See Bar Exam: “Tonic Tavern was Old Livery Stable.”]
Year Building Constructed: 1897, while people were going nuts, claiming to have seen mysterious airships flying around Milwaukee.
Architect: None found.
Estimated Annual Rent: 1,463 sq. ft. first level at $10.04/sq. ft. = $14,688.52 total rent according to City Assessor’s calculations. Application says $3,800 per month.
Property is assessed at $6,200 for the 3,100 sq. ft. lot ($2.00/sq. ft.) and $199,800 for the 2,441 sq. ft. building for a total assessed valuation of $206,000. The owner purchased the lot and building for $175,000 in April 2015.
Property taxes were $6,032.37 in 2015.
Property Owner: 2301 S LOGAN AVE LLC, Paul Jonas Agent
Business Owner: U. C. Jonas, Inc. Paul U. Jonas, Agent. D.O.B. 01/28/1967 100% owner.
Business: Bar, Public Entertainment Premises, Restaurant
Walk Score: 21, Car-Dependant. City Average: 61 That seems low. Just because this place is at the end of the earth does not mean you have to drive to get there.
Transit Score: 46, Some Transit. City Average: 49
Bike Rack: None, but there is a fence at the dog park across the street.
Aldermanic District: 14th; Ald. Tony Zielinski
County Supervisor District: 4th; Marina Dimitrijevic
Police District: 6
The Verdict was researched by Jordan Garcia
2 thoughts on “Bar Exam: Urban Bay View Is Unique”
Wait, what? There’s a parking ramp over there now? Are you sure that that’s not just the off ramp/viaduct from 794?
Christina Zawadiwsky says:
Not many places craft a great Old Fashioned anymore! Thanks for the review, Michael Horne!
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MUTUAL FUND FOLLIES
Christopher Markowski February 1, 2003 Article, Wall Street FraudLeave a Comment
In our never-ending hunt for Wall Street crooks we continue to face-off against the mutual fund industry. From deceptive advertising to ridiculous fees and expenses the fund industry is a large component of what is wrong on Wall Street.
Most investors are in the dark when it comes to fees and expenses. All data points to the fact that fees are rising despite performance that is beyond dismal. This past month there was a fourhour session of the House Financial Services Committee chaired by Michael Oxley (R., Ohio). Mr. Oxley stated:
“Are investors getting a fair shake?”
All recent data indicate the answer is no. Fees and expenses are going up. The sick irony is that those rising fees come as stock-fund holders have seen their retirement accounts dwindle month after month. Mr. Oxley has attacked fund giants Fidelity and Vanguard for mystifying investors and potentially harming them with an array of hidden fees. Mr. Oxley ordered up a study by the General Accounting Office, to further look at fund fees. The result was obvious, since 1998 the majority of stock and bond funds had higher expense ratios in 2001 than in 1998. Even worse are the conflicts of interest that have been first highlighted in this newsletter and are now coming to light in the Wall Street Journal. The incongruity that we have highlighted involves how mutual funds invest in initial public offerings. This past month the Wall Street Journal finally reported what we have been saying for years. Mutual funds affiliated with investment banks hold more stocks of companies that are banking clients than they do of companies that are clients of other banks.
This past month, Fidelity Investments’ flagship Magellan fund that was at one time the worlds largest, is now at a 5-½ year low in terms of assets ending 2002 with $56.8 billion. Last year, Magellan posted a loss of 24%. The S&P’s loss was 23%. In 2001 Magellan’s loss was 12% exactly matching the S&P. In 2000, the fund and the index both lost 9%.
Why do investors pay ridiculous management fees and commissions to have a mutual fund mirror an index and consistently lose money?
Did you know that every stock mutual fund managed last year by Fidelity lost money?
All but one. However, the fund that did make money is not available to investors. Only top management at Fidelity is allowed beyond this velvet rope. The New York Post reported that two years ago, Fidelity set up a company called Geode Investors LLC. By the end of 2002 over $229 million of corporate money was applied to this fund. Fidelity declined comment on this fund. However, according to Fidelity’s annual report the fund received income before taxes of $7.98 million.
Another fund group in our crosshairs is Van Wagoner. This firm was the height of unsubstantiated arrogance during the go-go 90’s. According to SEC documents, Van Wagoner is liquidating three of its six funds. The Van Wagoner Post-Venture Fund, Mid Cap Growth, and Technology Fund are now history. All of these funds were completely irresponsible in their investment style, enormous speculative bets on unproven technology and illiquid securities.
FIVE YEAR ANNUALIZED RETURNS
POST VENTURE FUND -18.43%
*FROM MARCH 1, 2001-JANUARY 30, 2002
THE FUND WAS DOWN 93% TECHNOLOGY FUND
-15.32% MID CAP GROWTH -19.67%
The SEC just announced that for the second time in the past two years they are considering an investigation into Van Wagoner’s method of valuing its private holdings. The firm admitted that civil and or administrative actions were being considered by the SEC.
By the way…Just in case your interested you can still invest in the Van Wagoner flagship Emerging Growth Fund, it’s only down an annualized 18.45% over the past five years.
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For Whom Wealth Matters
Paper Assets
← Is Saving In Silver Better Than Saving In Gold ?
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This is a story I came across today and it saddened me terribly.I don’t hold with mortifying the flesh to amass a fortune.Money is meant to be used (spent).Just make sure that ‘one hundred percent of appreciated value is demanded for each coin spent.’Saving and investing are to increase ones ability to make more to spend more in the present and the future.A little delayed gratification is necessary but to punish oneself to hoard money is stupid.
A Gold Hoarder’s Legacy
Walter Samaszko Jr. was not a guy who wanted company. He covered the windows of his house in Carson City, Nev., with cardboard so the neighbors couldn’t see inside. He made the postman stick the mail through the slot in his garage rather than coming to the front door. He was so good at keeping people away that when he died of heart failure at age 69 in June, nobody noticed until his house began to smell. Someone called the sheriff’s department. A hazmat team removed Samaszko along with part of the floor he was stuck to.
That’s when everybody found out why he hadn’t been more sociable: The dour, white-haired recluse had been hoarding $7 million worth of gold coins, most of them hidden in the crawl space beneath the house. Some were in an old washing machine. There were British sovereigns dating back to the 1840s, Austrian ducats, and South African Kruggerands. But mostly Samaszko had collected rolls and rolls of $20 American gold pieces, the kind with double eagles on them. He also had $12,000 in cash, a stock account worth $165,000—and $200 in the bank.
The person who discovered Samaszko’s secret was Jeri Vine, a local real estate broker hired to clean up his house. She spent five days combing through his possessions. Samaszko had been prepared for the worst. He owned several guns, gas masks, and survivalist manuals. His cupboards were filled with canned tuna fish. He had a lot of Johnny Mathis tapes. Vine threw most of it out. “We had like a 33-yard dumpster on the driveway,” she says. “I filled that thing.”
On the fourth day, Vine opened a metal ammunition box in the garage. It was full of gold coins in plastic cases. She called Alan Glover, the public administrator of Carson City. “Alan, get over here immediately!” she told him. “There’s so much money it’s unbelievable.” The sheriff’s department returned to the house, this time with metal detectors. It took Glover and three attorneys two days to count all the coins. With the help of a numismatic expert, they determined that Samaszko’s clutch was worth $7 million. The gold is being stored in a vault in Reno until a local probate court judge decides its fate.
Samaszko may have been prepared for a societal collapse, but not for his own end. He had no will. Nor did he have any children. Glover was able to locate a first cousin, Arlene Magdanz, a part-time teacher in San Rafael, Calif., who hadn’t seen him in years. Glover expects the probate court to release the fortune to Magdanz after the IRS extracts its cut. (He estimates the federal government’s take will be about $800,000.)
The tale of the elderly recluse who turned out to be a millionaire became a brief sensation, with Vine and Glover appearing on the Today show.
Vine eventually sold Samaszko’s house for an undisclosed price. Some prospective buyers just wanted to see if there was any more gold hidden there. “One guy had his contractor friend go underneath the house,” Vine says. “I told him we went through that place with a fine-toothed comb. Never heard from him again.”
It’s easy to see why Samaszko’s death and the revelations that followed fascinate people. How many of us would have kept $7 million in a crawl space and not touched it? It makes you wonder what other secrets died with him.
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Alex Jones says:
People forget that money is a means to an end, not the end in itself. Money opens doors. Money is to me like energy, you use it in a sustainable way so that you continue to recycle it in an active way rather than hoarding it.
keerthikasingaravel says:
Nice analogy with sustainable energy,Mind if I pinch it for the book you spoke about?
How does a primer/basic book on financial wisdom sound?A book with the basics of what works and what doesn’t so that beginners wouldn’t have to muddle through and lose money like me?
Maybe a book with info in small paras or bullet points and pictures/info graphics?
A book with the keys that people round the world could use to analyse their situation,economy and local financial products and decide for themselves?
Using the principles of sustainability in your book would be an awesome idea.
I think your ideas about how to construct your book are good. Principles organised in a simple and easy to understand way backed by plenty of graphics. Also including inspirational quotes like you do in your blog, and case studies.
Quotes and case studies are now added to my list.
You are welcome to use my little contributions, there is no copyright to universal ideas.
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12 films for those who want to cry - News with meaning
12 films for those who want to cry
By Edwin C. Reade! 0 Comment 3rd October 2019 cry, films
Autumn rapidly captures territories, coloring leaves in yellow and red colors, more and more often we observe gray clouds and rain at the window, and the autumn spleen imperceptibly creeps up. Sometimes you just want to allow yourself a couple of hours of weakness and, wrapped in a blanket, watch a touching and romantic film that will give vent to our feelings.
Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979
Director: Robert Benton
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander
Plot: A film about the confrontation of former spouses in the struggle for the child. At first, the father of the family, Ted Kramer, carried away by a career, does not notice the abyss between him and his wife. After that, the wife leaves in search of happiness, leaving her father and six-year-old son alone. And only Ted finds an approach to his son when his wife appears and wants to pick up the boy.
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Starring: Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts, Ed Harris
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Starring: Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant
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urticarial vasculitis in northern spain
Urticarial Vasculitis in Northern SpainClinical Study of 21 Cases
Javier Loricera, MD, Vanesa Calvo-Ro, MD, Cristina Mata, MD, Francisco Ortiz-Sanjuan, MD,Marcos A. Gonzalez-Lopez, MD, PhD, Lino Alvarez, MD, M. Carmen Gonzalez-Vela, MD, PhD,
Susana Armesto, MD, PhD, Hector Fernandez-Llaca, MD, Javier Rueda-Gotor, MD,Miguel A. Gonzalez-Gay, MD, PhD,* and Ricardo Blanco, MD, PhD*
Abstract: Urticarial vasculitis (UV) is a subset of cutaneous vasculitis(CV), characterized clinically by urticarial skin lesions of more than24 hours duration and histologically by leukocytoclastic vasculitis. Weassessed the frequency, clinical features, treatment, and outcome of a seriesof patients with UV. We conducted a retrospective study of patients withUV included in a large series of unselected patients with CV from a uni-versity hospital. Of 766 patients with CV, UV was diagnosed in 21 (2.7%;9 male and 12 female patients; median age, 35 yr; range, 1Y78 yr; inter-quartile range, 5Y54 yr). Eight of the 21 cases were aged younger than20 years old. Potential precipitating factors were upper respiratory tractinfections and drugs (penicillin) (n = 4; in all cases in patients aged G20 yr),human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection (n = 1), and malignancy(n = 1). Besides urticarial lesions, other features such as palpable purpura(n = 7), arthralgia and/or arthritis (n = 13), abdominal pain (n = 2), ne-phropathy (n = 2), and peripheral neuropathy (n = 1) were observed.Hypocomplementemia (low C4) with low C1q was disclosed in 2 patients.Other abnormal laboratory findings were leukocytosis (n = 7), increasederythrocyte sedimentation rate (n = 6), anemia (n = 4), and antinuclearantibody positivity (n = 2). Treatment included corticosteroids (n = 12),antihistaminic drugs (n = 6), chloroquine (n = 4), nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (n = 3), colchicine (n = 2), and azathioprine (n = 1).After a median follow-up of 10 months (interquartile range, 2Y38 mo)recurrences were observed in 4 patients. Apart from 1 patient who diedbecause of an underlying malignancy, the outcome was good with fullrecovery in the remaining patients. In conclusion, our results indicate thatUV is rare but not exceptional. In children UV is often preceded by anupper respiratory tract infection. Urticarial lesions and joint manifestationsare themost frequent clinical manifestation. Low complement serum levelsare observed in a minority of cases. The prognosis is generally good, butdepends on the underlying disease.
(Medicine 2014;93: 53Y60)
Abbreviations: ANA = antinuclear antibodies, ANCAs =antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies, CV = cutaneous vasculitis,ESR = erythrocyte sedimentation rate, HIV = human
immunodeficiency virus, IQR = interquartile range, NSAIDs =nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs, RF = rheumatoid factor,SLE = systemic lupus erythematosus, UV = urticarial vasculitis.
The vasculitides are a heterogeneous group of conditionscharacterized by blood vessel inflammation and necrosis.16Urticarial vasculitis (UV) is a subset of cutaneous vasculitis (CV)described byMcDuffie et al34 in 1973 and characterized clinicallyby urticarial skin lesions lasting longer than 24 hours and histo-logically by vasculitis. Urticarial skin lesions in this conditionconsist of an eruption of erythematous wheals that clinically re-semble urticaria but histologically show changes of leukocytoclasticvasculitis.38,50 UV may be divided into normocomplementemicand hypocomplementemic variants. Both subsets can be associ-ated with systemic symptoms such as angioedema, arthralgia orarthritis, abdominal or chest pain, fever, pulmonary disease, renaldisease, episcleritis, uveitis, and Raynaud phenomenon. The hypo-complementemic form is more often associated with systemicsymptoms and has been associated with connective tissue diseasesuch as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE).43,49
The incidence of UV remains unclear. Because of that, weassessed the frequency, clinical features, treatment, and outcomeof all patients diagnosed as having UV from a large series of un-selected patients with CV.
Patient PopulationWe reviewed the case records of patients from a teaching
reference hospital in Northern Spain (Hospital UniversitarioMarques de Valdecilla, Santander) in whom CV was diagnosedfrom January 1976 to December 2011. Methods were similar tothose previously reported.4 Briefly, the diagnosis of CVwas basedon either 1) a skin biopsy showing characteristic pathologic find-ings of vasculitis, 2) the presence of typical nonthrombocytopenicpalpable purpura, or 3) a clinically evident syndrome in thepediatric age.
UV was considered to be present when the patient had urti-carial lesions (Figures 1A and 1B) lasting more than 24 hoursand a skin biopsy showed leukocytoclastic vasculitis (Figures 2Aand 2B). An exception to that was considered in 2 patients aged1 year presenting with typical urticarial lesions lasting more than24 hours in whom the pediatricians did not perform a skin biopsy.
Clinical and Laboratory DefinitionsWe used the following definitions: 1) Patients aged older than
20 years were considered adults. The cutoff of 20 years was chosenbecause this age was proposed as a criterion by the AmericanCollege of Rheumatology.36,37 2) Fever was defined as an axillary
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From Divisions of Rheumatology (JL, VC-R, CM, FO-S, JR-G, MAG-G, RB),Dermatology (MAG-L, SA, HF-L), Pediatrics (LA), and Pathology (MCG-V),Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, IFIMAV, Santander, Spain.*Drs. Gonzalez-Gay and Blanco share senior authorship.Financial support and conflicts of interest: This study was supported by grants
from Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias PI12/00193 (Spain). Thiswork was also partially supported by RETICS Programs, RD08/0075(RIER) and RD12/0009/0013 from Instituto de Salud Carlos III(ISCIII) (Spain). The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Reprints: Miguel A. Gonzalez-Gay or Ricardo Blanco, RheumatologyDivision, Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla, Avda. Valdecillas/n., ES-39008, Santander, Spain (e
temperature 937.7-C. 3) Constitutional syndrome: asthenia and/or anorexia, and weight loss of at least 4 kg. 4) Joint symptomsincluded arthralgia and/or joint effusion. 5) Gastrointestinalmanifestations: bowel angina (diffuse abdominal pain worseningafter meals), gastrointestinal bleeding (melena, hematochezia, orpositive stool Guaiac test), nausea and/or vomiting. 6) The ne-phropathy was categorized as mild or severe. Mild nephropathyincluded those patients with microhematuria (Q5 red cells/highpower field) without reaching nephritic syndrome and/or pro-teinuria that did not reach the nephrotic range. 7) A relapse wasconsidered to be present when a patient previously diagnosed ashaving CVand asymptomatic for at least 1 month presented againa new flare of cutaneous lesions. Anemia was defined as a he-moglobin level e110 g/L. Leukocytosis was defined if awhite cellcount was Q11 109/L, and leukopenia was defined as a leuko-cyte count G3 109/L. TheWestergren erythrocyte sedimentationrate (ESR) in mm/h was considered elevated when it was higherthan 15 or 20 mm/h for male or female patients, respectively.
Clinical Studyln most patients presenting with CV, routine laboratory
studies, including complete blood cell count, coagulation studies,and liver and renal function tests, were performed at the time ofdiagnosis. In addition, ESR, routine urinalysis, and chest radio-graphs were performed.
An immunologic profile was carried out in most adults (butonly in a minority of children). It included rheumatoid factor (RF),performed until the late 1980s by quantitative latex agglutinationtest, and later by nephelometry; antinuclear antibodies (ANA), byindirect immunofluorescence using rodent tissues as substrateuntil the late 1980s and since then by Hep-2 cells; serum levelsof C3 and C4, first by radial immunodiffusion and more recentlyby nephelometry; and cryoglobulins. The composition of the cryo-precipitate was determined by double immunodiffusion with spe-cific antibodies. Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCAs)were assessed initially by indirect immunofluorescence on alcohol-fixed neutrophils, and later, by enzyme-linked immunosorbentassay (ELISA) with purified proteinase-3 and myeloperoxidase.ANCAs were only assessed in patients seen since 1990. Othertests, such as anti-nDNA antibodies (by immunofluorescencewith Crithidia luciliae as substrate), blood cultures, Guaiac testfor occult blood, bone marrow biopsy, and serology for hepatitisB, C, or human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, wereperformed only when they were clinically indicated.
Data Collection and Statistical AnalysisData were first reviewed and then analyzed to study etio-
logic, clinical, laboratory, and histopathologic features, as well astreatment and prognosis. Data were extracted from patients clin-ical records according to a specifically designed protocol, reviewed
FIGURE 1. Typical urticarial lesions in a patient presenting with urticarial vasculitis (A and B; residual purpuric lesions canbe observed in B).
FIGURE 2. A, Perivascular and interstitial infiltrate of polymorphonuclear neutrophils and eosinophils ( white arrow) with leukocytoclasticvenulitis. (Hematoxylin-eosin stain; original magnification 100.) B, Perivascular eosinophilic infiltrate with fibrin deposits (shortwhite arrow) and karyorrhexis (long white arrow). (Hematoxylin-eosin stain; original magnification 200.)
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Ryoka sat in an inn and munched on her potatoes and stewed meat. She felt guilty about it, but the dinner menu hadn’t exactly been diverse with options and she was hungry. Still, she felt guilty.
Her plate was about 80% potato and 20% meat. And it wasn’t great meat at that. The potatoes actually weren’t that bad – the people here spiced it up pretty strong with their unique blend of peppers and herbs so it was palatable, but it was definitely not the kind of meal a healthy runner should eat.
Plus, this was her second plate. The guilt was real, but Ryoka couldn’t do much about it. She took another bite of the steaming potatoes and tried not to think about dieting or proper nutritional intake.
Normally she avoided carbo-loading unless she was actually going to run a race but…she deserved a treat. Besides she was officially resting at the moment after all the healing she’d been doing. And again, the inn wasn’t serving anything else so she had to make do.
Potatoes and meat, with a lot more gristle than she was used to. Still, it tasted good and she was used to rugged fare, especially when she went camping.
Not modern-day camping, either. Ryoka disdained people who slept in their own car or worse, in a huge trailer they towed to campsites. No, she preferred roughing it with a sleeping bag, enough food for a few days and the bare essentials. That was living.
But she had to admit, it would be nice to have a hamburger once in a while. And fresh vegetables like kale. Right now harvest season had passed and it was late fall (although it certainly didn’t feel that cold), and vegetables were in shorter supply.
More meat, more vegetable, a lot less carb. That would be better. But you got what you paid for. Ryoka sighed and ate another chunk of potato. It wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t great either. At least someone else was enjoying her meal.
Garia finished her third plate of potatoes and meat and took a deep draft from her mug before sighing contentedly. She had a good appetite. Well, she would. Ryoka surreptitiously eyed Garia’s arms and body. She might not have a six pack, but Ryoka hadn’t seen arms that thick on another girl outside of an MMA tournament.
Not that she was muscled like those idiots who used steroids. Garia was just a heavier girl, one who clearly was used to heavy lifting.
“Do you always do the heaviest deliveries?”
Garia paused as she raised her mug to her lips.
“Um, yes. Normally. I mean, I’m not too fast but I can still earn quite a lot on an overnight delivery.”
“Those spices you carried here. All the way from Wales. They were heavy. I saw the size of your pack. Must have been thirty, forty kilos of weight. And you jogged the entire way here?”
Garia shifted and blushed a bit.
“Well, if you distribute the weight properly it’s not that bad. And sometimes I walk a bit if I get tired.”
“Hm. Impressive.”
Ryoka bit into another potato and eyed the browned onions as Garia turned red. She clearly wasn’t used to praise, but Ryoka was impressed by anyone who could run with that much weight.
“The Runner’s Guild requests are a mix between fast deliveries, safe deliveries, and heavy deliveries, right?”
“That’s right. Most deliveries people want fast over long distance, like the ones you take. But sometimes they want to make sure no one reads their message so that’s important too. But when they need something delivered quickly—well, faster than by cart or wagon and it’s small enough, we get the heavy requests. I take those, most of the time. It’s safe. No one wants to steal raw ore or a few bags of sugar. The most expensive stuff I carry are weapons and spices.”
Ryoka wondered just how efficient Runners were compared to a wagon. But then, she’d seen the traffic jams that occurred in cities and how muddy the roads could get. Runners might be expensive, but if you needed something now they were your only real option.
As Ryoka lifted her fork to her mouth she glanced up and saw a man staring at her across the room. He immediately glanced back down at his plate as their eyes met, but he was far from the only one. Several other men and women of various ages glanced away or in a few cases, met Ryoka’s gaze as she looked around the room. Even the barmaids eyed her surreptitiously as they delivered another plate of food for Garia.
Ryoka scowled. Garia noticed the other runner’s expression and realized what was making Ryoka unhappy.
“They’re just interested, Ryoka. There’s no need to look like that.”
“If they’re so interested they can come over and talk or they can bugger off.”
Garia blinked. Sometimes Ryoka used the strangest expressions when she talked, but Garia could usually understand what she meant. The glare Ryoka leveled at her watchers was unmistakable, though. Garia tried to sound reasonable.
“Well, can you blame them? I mean, you are the only Runner to survive the High Passes for years – and without a scratch at that! And when you fell out of the sky—”
“Don’t remind me.”
Ryoka scowled down at her plate and tried not to remember. Her back still ached, even though the healing potions had done their work. At least she hadn’t broken anything again, or landed on her head.
“Damn elfish mage bastard.”
“Nothing. Anyways, I didn’t get out unscathed. I got torn up on the way in and I needed serious healing or I would have died.”
“Oh, so you found a healing potion? Ceria was so worried when she realized she’d given you the mana potions.”
“…Something like that. And it’s odd. I could have sworn she gave me healing potions too.”
“She’s really, really sorry, you know.”
“I know. Anyways, it’s both our fault for not double-checking.”
Ryoka scowled at her half-finished plate. Garia fidgeted, clearly wanting to clear Ceria’s name
“She said she tried to contact you several times. Didn’t you um, notice?”
Ryoka glared harder at her innocent plate. She tried not to let her voice get too defensive, but it was hard.
“How was I supposed to know I was supposed to touch those damn fireflies to speak with her? I thought I was being hexed or something.”
“Oh, no. That’s the way students at Wistram Academy communicate, apparently. Ceria doesn’t know other spells so…”
“I get it. I’m not mad at her. Anyways, I survived. It all worked out.”
Except of course that she had more problems than she’d started out with. Ryoka could still feel Teriarch’s words burning in the back of her mind. But she could ignore them, so long as she reminded herself she still needed to prepare. The strange potion he’d given her was locked in Ryoka’s chest upstairs.
“Come to that, where is Ceria? I haven’t seen her. I’d have assumed she’d be right here along with Gerial and Calruz.”
Garia shook her head.
“They’re all out of the city. Calruz came by and gathered all the members. Apparently they’re going to Esthelm to prepare to enter the ruins in Liscor.”
Ryoka’s expression didn’t alter noticeably, but she swore internally. She raised her mug to her lips, opened her mouth to ask another question, and this time swore externally.
“Damnit.”
Fals walked across the inn, flashing a smile at one of the barmaids and clasping hands with someone he recognized. He stopped at Ryoka’s table and hesitated. There were three chairs, but Ryoka’s foot had magically appeared in the third seat.
“Ryoka, how are you? I was hoping I could talk to you!”
“Were you?”
Ryoka stared as Fals dragged up another chair and sat next to Garia, who blushed and edged away from him. She wasn’t quite glaring – mainly because Garia was kicking her none-too-gently in the shins and trying to get her to play nice. She didn’t feel like playing nice.
“I just wanted to congratulate you on your delivery. Everyone in the city’s talking about it.”
Garia glared, and Ryoka toned down the rampant hostility in her voice. Fals cleared his throat, looking abashed.
“Look, I’m ah, sorry about earlier. We didn’t part on the best of terms, did we?”
Ryoka stared. Fals hesitated, and then went on.
“The Guild—and I—would like to apologize. Clearly, you’re a great Runner and we’d hate to lose you. We’ll talk to Magnolia, and if you’d like to take on more requests we’ll be happy to let you take any one you want.”
Mentally, Ryoka translated his statement. Since she’d won and she didn’t need the Guild, they’d decided to take her back. Well, she could live with that. And so would the Guild.
She didn’t respond, though. Instead, Ryoka slowly and deliberately took a big bite of potato and chewed slowly as she stared down Fals. It was awkward as hell, but she enjoyed his discomfort.
Fals cleared his throat and glanced at Garia, but the other girl was trying not to make eye contact with him and wolfing down her food.
“So, um, how were the High Passes? Did you see a lot of monsters or were you able to outrun them?”
“Saw a lot of monsters. Nasty ones.”
“…Any interesting ones?”
Ryoka shrugged.
“Gargoyles, birds with teeth, killer goats, and wolf packs. You’d love it there.”
“Ah. Well—well done on avoiding them. What about the client? I take it you got the request from him in person, right? What was he like? Or is it a she?”
Garia looked up, curious. Ryoka glanced around. She felt like several nearby patrons on each table were listening. She nodded to herself and then looked at Fals.
“Confidential.”
The conversation stalled. Well, it hadn’t really been going that well in the first place and Ryoka bluntly shot down all of Fal’s attempts to ask about the High Passes or her delivery. At last, he leaned forwards and gave Ryoka his most charming smile.
“I know you’re still recuperating, but I’d love to go on a delivery with you sometime. Maybe you, me, and Garia could do a request?”
That was Ryoka’s way of saying no, and all three Runners knew it. Fals didn’t falter though.
“Is there um, anything I can do for you? I know you’re probably still mad, but I’d love to make it up to you. Would you say, let me buy you a few drinks?”
Ryoka thought about this while Garia tried to signal her to say ‘yes’ covertly. She nodded at last.
“There is something you can do.”
Fals smiled in relief.
“Really? Well then, what is it?”
Ryoka nodded.
“You can clear out. I’m talking to Garia.”
He blinked at her while Garia groaned audibly. Fals tried to smile it off, but Ryoka’s expression was deadpan. After a few seconds he stood up awkwardly.
“Well, ah, I’ll be going. It was nice talking to you, Ryoka. And I’ll see you around, Garia.”
He walked around the table and paused for only a second by Ryoka. She heard him whisper just loud enough so she could hear it.
“Watch yourself. Persua left the Guild with her group this morning. She’ll probably try something.”
She glanced up. Fals gave her a Gallic shrug and walked off. Ryoka shook her head in disgust, and then received a sharp kick to her shin. She glanced up.
“You didn’t have to be so rude.”
Garia hissed at Ryoka, her normally amicable face clouded over by a frown. She looked at Fals as the Runner left the inn, disappointed. Then she turned back to Ryoka.
“He was trying to say sorry, Ryoka. Why’d you chase him off?”
“I’m not going to ruin my dinner listening to forced apologies and have him try to find out what I’m delivering. You know that’s what he was here to do.”
Garia hesitated.
“Not—necessarily. He uh—why don’t you like him?”
Ryoka blinked at the sudden change in topic.
“He’s annoying. I hate charmers, and he’s not even that charming to begin with. Whose side is he on, anyways?”
“No one’s. He’s trying to keep the Guild together, Ryoka.”
“By stepping on anyone who gets out of line? Good method. He didn’t stop Persua and her cronies from attacking me—and he’s not going to do it again by the sounds of it.”
“He would if you let him stick around. Fals can’t do anything to Persua except talk to her, but he’s trying to help. He likes you.”
Ryoka raised her eyebrows. She hadn’t expected that. Nor did she quite believe it.
“Good for him, but I don’t need help.”
“Not even with Persua?”
Garia saw Ryoka’s hand tighten on her fork, almost crushing the cheap pot metal.
“Not even with her. I’ll deal with Persua, now that I know what she’s like.”
Garia was doubtful.
“She’s like a dog, Ryoka. Even if you hurt her, she’ll keep coming back. And if you do get her mad, she gets vicious.”
“Oh, she’s like a dog. A female one. And you know what? I’m tired of her shit. If she tries anything again I’ll put her down.”
Ryoka was about to go on, but Garia started frantically signaling her to stop. Ryoka didn’t stop, though. She’d already seen the multiple reflections in her mug, but some things needed saying.
“She’s annoying, stupid, craven, and she doesn’t know how to run. I still owe her a broken leg. If she thinks she can try something else—”
“Hi Persua!”
Ryoka looked up. Persua stood in front of the table, smiling in a not-so-friendly way down at the two Runners. She had her usual group of cronies at her back, and Ryoka spotted a bigger guy behind them.
“Ryoka, Garia! I’m so glad you’re okay! I almost didn’t spot you, but then I saw Garia—she’s impossible to miss even in this crowd—and I decided to say hi!”
Garia turned bright red and looked down at her stack of plates while Ryoka looked up and met Persua’s eyes. A spark of hatred wouldn’t be enough to describe the look that flashed between the two.
Mean girls. Ryoka remembered them from school. Persua was a perfect representation of the school social climber who would tear down anyone she didn’t like.
And like the other girls Ryoka had clashed with, Persua didn’t need an invitation to keep talking. Her eyes flicked to Garia and then back to Ryoka.
“So sorry to interrupt your conversation. Were you talking about me by any chance?”
Garia flinched, but Ryoka’s expression didn’t change. She nodded, and raised her mug to Persua and smiled a tiny bit.
“Yeah, sorry, I just called you a bitch.”
Persua’s smile vanished in a heartbeat. Garia’s mouth opened in an ‘o’ of horror as she stared at Ryoka.
“That’s not very nice. I’d hate to think you were talking behind my back, Ryoka.”
“Don’t worry. I’ll do it to your face. I’m busy, Persua. Go somewhere else.”
“What if I want to stay? I’ve a right to sit in this inn, same as you.”
“Find another table. But if I were you, I’d get out.”
“Is that a threat?”
Persua hesitated. She probably hadn’t expected Ryoka to confront her this quickly, but Ryoka knew how the conversation would have gone regardless. She nodded at Persua and her group.
“You lot gonna piss off or do I have to make you leave?”
If Garia could have edged any further back from her table she’d be sitting at the one behind her. For a second Persua and her friends hesitated. They might be Runners and outnumber the two by a good margin, but Ryoka had a certain edge about her. But then someone shoved his way through the group and stood next to Persua.
Ryoka looked up past Persua, and into a solid face. Solid, or ugly, if you wanted to be unkind. The adventurer scowled down at Ryoka and leaned forwards over the table.
“I’d watch your mouth if I were you, Runner. You should show more respect to your seniors and betters.”
Of course. Ryoka stared into murky green eyes and cursed herself for not remembering. Another trick mean girls liked to use when they couldn’t solve things with words and nasty tricks. Run to the biggest boy in the room.
“I don’t know who you are, but you’re in my face. Go away, and take Persua and her crew with you.”
The adventurer blinked. He was doing the classic male trick of crowding Ryoka and it wasn’t working. She wasn’t even leaning back and they were nearly nose to nose.
“This is Arnel. He’s a Bronze-ranked adventurer in Celum.”
Persua smiled from behind the adventurer. She patted Arnel on the shoulder and he straightened and smiled back at her. She made a face when he turned back to glare at Ryoka. It was almost sad to see how obvious her contempt for him was, and how much Arnel was being played. Almost. Ryoka had little sympathy for any guy playing the bully part.
Arnel leaned forwards again, this time towards Garia who shrank back. He glared at Ryoka who stared back at him until he blinked.
“I think you should be a little more respectful for Miss Persua. An apology would be a good start, and I’d insist on it.”
Garia kicked Ryoka again, hard.
Arnel looked back at Persua, who laughed shrilly. He smiled hostilely at Ryoka.
“I guess then I’d have to teach you a lesson in manners, Runner.”
“Really? That would be amusing to watch.”
The adventurer’s face went blank for a moment. Again, this wasn’t going according to how his brain had plotted the conversation out. But Persua stepped in to help him. She glared down at Ryoka.
“Arnel’s an adventurer. He’s fought monsters, and slain countless Goblins. You don’t have that oaf of a Minotaur and that freak half-elf to protect you now, Ryoka.”
“Who says I need backup?”
This was too much for the impressionable Arnel. He was aware some of the other inn goers were snickering at him, and even the fat innkeeper was working up the nerve to order him to take the fight outside. He snarled and pushed Ryoka roughly in her seat.
“Look you idiot. I’m giving you only one warning—”
Ryoka stood up. She was actually taller than Arnel, and when she pushed back her chair, the inn went silent. She still had her mug in her hands. Arnel was trying to come up with a good threat, but Persua backed away as Ryoka raised her mug to her lips.
She took a sip of her drink – mainly just for show – and then tossed the rest of her mug’s contents in the adventurer’s face. He blinked as watery ale ran down his face. Garia’s face was a waxwork. Persua smiled evilly.
The adventurer was still shifting from shock to outrage when Ryoka decked him with a spinning backhand. He crashed to the ground and she tossed the mug at Persua. Not hard – well, okay, hard enough that the other girl had to duck before the container broke her nose, but not hard as Ryoka could have tossed it. The cheap pottery shattered to bits and Ryoka waited for Arnel to stand back up.
“You craven whore!”
He shouted as he rushed at her. Ryoka waited patiently as he came at her. She’d already moved far enough away from the table and cleared the chair from behind her.
The adventurer rushed at her, over a hundred—maybe two hundred pounds of angry guy. Ryoka shifted her weight and timed her strike. When the adventurer was only a few feet away she moved.
Ryoka balanced on one leg while her other extended. She didn’t quite kick—it was more like a push. A powerful push that broke the adventurer’s charge and sent him stumbling back.
He came back, of course. They always did. But by that point Ryoka had the room, leverage, and timing to set up her roundhouse. It came up and across his chest, making a dull thudding sound as it struck him.
The adventurer gasped, lost the air in his lungs and stumbled back. But he didn’t fall down.
Ryoka tried not to wince. She’d hit him hard, but he was wearing something hard underneath his clothing. Chain mail? It felt like she’d kicked that.
Quickly, before he could move she snap-kicked him in the chest. It wasn’t a Muay Thai move – but she didn’t have enough room for anything else.
This time Arnel fell down, but he got up at once. Ryoka grimaced and hopped back as he swung at her. She threw a punch, but he caught it and lashed out at her face.
Ryoka caught his fist on an arm and felt the heavy blow. Damn. This wasn’t good. Now Arnel was really mad, and he was swinging wildly at her. She dodged and weaved backwards, but she had little room to maneuver. Plus, Ryoka was on the wrong foot mentally.
She wasn’t used to people getting up after she hit them.
Dodge, dodge—Ryoka threw a counter and hit him squarely on the jaw. But he was tough, and when he struck back he finally landed a blow.
Ryoka felt the impact on her head and twisted her neck, but it still hurt. She backed up, and the adventurer came at her. She tried to keep him back with punches, but he was more than willing to trade hits.
He kept rushing her, and the tables and chairs made it nearly impossible for Ryoka to weave and dodge like she’d been taught. She instead raised her hands up around her head, forming a guard on both sides of her head. It was a traditional Muay Thai guard, but the problem was the adventurer wasn’t trying to hit or kick her that much.
He was a guy, and she had the definite sense he didn’t want to hit her so much as take her down. He kept trying to go for the bear hug. She let him get close, but grabbed his shoulders and swept his feet out as he lunged.
Again he went down. Ryoka wanted to stomp on his face or kick him in the nuts or both—but something flew at her head. She struck the mug down with one hand and glanced up. Persua glared and threw another glass which missed Ryoka by miles.
Her moment of inattention cost Ryoka. Arnel surged upwards and she was too slow to get away. He seized her left and began punching at Ryoka. She hammered at his face, but he wouldn’t let go.
He was strong. She couldn’t break free just by pulling, not that she had any intention to. Arnel hit Ryoka twice in the side of the face—not hard because he couldn’t get a good angle. She’d bloodied his nose and got him twice on the face, but he now pulled back for a big punch.
There was no way to get away. Ryoka got ready. She’d take the punch and then hit him with a knee. Hopefully she wouldn’t kill him or break anything too vital, but enough was enough.
She braced herself for a hit to her ribs. Arnel swung—
And Garia grabbed his hand.
All of the man’s momentum carried him forwards, but Garia was a tree that he crashed into. He fought to get her to let go, but Garia had hold of his hand with her own and her grip was like steel.
It was a three way tug-of-war with Arnel holding Ryoka and Garia holding him. Not for long, though. The instant his attention shifted to Garia, Ryoka acted. She clocked the man with a downwards elbow so fast he’d let go and she was away before he could blink.
“Calm down! Everyone calm down!”
At last Ryoka could hear what Garia was saying over the roaring of blood in her ears. Arnel was still cursing at her, tugging at Garia’s arm and Persua was shouting for her friends to help him. But the other Runners didn’t want to get close, especially once they saw how Garia was effortlessly holding the bigger man back.
“Let go, damn you!”
“Come on, we can work this out—”
Ryoka tried to move to block, but Arnel’s fist caught Garia on the mouth even as she was talking. The bigger girl stumbled and he wrenched his hand free. Triumphantly, Arnel turned on Ryoka and raised his fists.
Garia stumbled, put her hand to her face, and looked up at the other man as Ryoka danced back. Her eyes burned, and she stood up. Garia made a clumsy fist, and then moved forwards.
Ryoka was playing tag with her fist, and Arnel’s face was it. He still wasn’t going down or even slowing, but then a planet interposed itself between her and the adventurer. Garia. Arnel raised his hands for a hammer blow, but too late. Slow as she was, the other Runner was in the way. And then it happened.
Garia threw a punch.
It was slow. Ryoka saw the other girl telegraph the motion, and she had terrible form. But when she hit the adventurer he made a sound. Or rather his body made a sound.
Wumph.
Ryoka had never seen someone’s feet leave the floor from a punch. Arnel levitated for a second, and then touched the ground as Garia’s fist let him down back to earth. He folded up and down like a sack of potatoes.
He was out. Completely out, without even a chance to object. Ryoka blinked down at the adventurer and saw the chain mail had deformed around Garia’s punch. The other girl rubbed at her hand and shook her head as the noise died down.
Once Arnel fell, the other Runners realized it was time to go. Persua had slipped out the door before the fight had even ended. Her minions made to follow suit, but Ryoka caught one of them and threw him into a table. She managed to punch another girl hard enough to bruise her cheek, and then they were gone.
The aftermath of a tavern brawl was never fun, especially when you had an innkeeper screaming at you. But Arnel had money – barely enough to cover the costs – and Ryoka wasn’t about to pay for something she hadn’t started. Well, she had started it, but she still wasn’t going to pay.
The upshot of it was that Garia and Ryoka were kicked out of the inn, at least for the rest of dinner. They walked down the street, Garia talking excitedly to Ryoka.
“You were amazing! He barely touched you the entire time!”
“Eh. I should have knocked him out in the first few moments. He was tougher than I thought. Got me a few times.”
Gingerly, Ryoka touched at her cheek and arms. Bruises. Not too deep, but annoying. She deserved them, though, for being so sloppy.
“But the way you moved! He was an adventurer, and you treated him like some kind of Level 1 [Thug]! How’d you do it?”
“Oh, it’s just martial arts. A bit of Muay Thai and other styles.”
Ryoka glanced at Garia’s blank face and elaborated.
“It’s a way to fight unarmed. You learn how to kick, punch, throw, etc. properly.”
“Really? This Muy—muy tai thing is good? Is it a Skill?”
Ryoka wanted to groan or roll her eyes.
“Not a skill. It’s something you learn, not a class or anything. I learned it when I was a kid. You could learn it too.”
“Really? Well, I mean, I’d love to know how to move like that. You were amazing back there! You’re practically good as an adventurer yourself!”
Ryoka laughed shortly.
“He wasn’t that great. And martial arts don’t work on monsters. Believe me, I figured that out the hard way.”
“Still, I couldn’t believe it. When you threw the mug in his face I thought we’d have to run for sure. But you took him down!”
Ryoka stopped. She eyed Garia and shook her head with a frown.
“You took him down. With one punch.”
Garia blushed and shook her head.
“I was just angry. You hit him way more than I did.”
This time it was Ryoka’s turn to object.
“Don’t sell yourself short. That last punch was serious business. I hit that guy several times and he didn’t fall down, but you went right through his chainmail shirt. You’re far stronger than both of us. That last punch you threw was harder than my kick.”
“Well, you know…I carry a lot of heavy things…”
Ryoka realized Garia was turning red, and not because she was happy. The barefoot girl stopped in the nearly empty street and eyed Garia.
“What’s wrong? It was a great punch. Your form was terrible, but being strong’s not a problem.”
“It’s just—it’s just a bit embarrassing, that’s all. You know?”
“No. Explain it to me.”
Garia clearly didn’t want to, but Ryoka wouldn’t let her off the hook. She sighed.
“I’m a [Runner]. And—I know I’m bigger than most girls. I just don’t like talking about my size.”
“You’re fine.”
“I’m glad you think so but—it’s because of my class. And the way I eat, but my class is part of it. That’s why I’m so strong, too, but it’s embarrassing.”
There was no getting out of it. Garia looked around, but there was no one around to hear her. Even so, she lowered her voice.
“Um, I was a [Farm Worker] before I became a [Runner]. I got to Level 14 before I changed classes. That’s why I’m so…so…”
She blushed deeply red. Ryoka looked blankly at Garia.
“So strong? What’s the problem.”
“I’m big, Ryoka! I don’t want to be, but [Farm Workers] bulk up and it’s impossible to lose weight! I don’t want to be big. I want to be small and light like you and—”
Garia looked like she was about to cry. Her face was red and she was starting to stammer. After a moment Ryoka patted her on the shoulder.
“I’m not light. Well, I am in shape but so are you. What’s wrong with being that strong? Anyways a [Farm Worker] doesn’t sound like that bad a job—class. Why do you care?”
Garia shook her head despairingly. She didn’t know how to explain it.
“It’s not a great class. Or a job, really. Even [Farmers] get more respect since they actually know how to till the land and take care of it properly. I just helped out with the plowing, lifting, and so on. But when I used to tell people what class I was they’d laugh—or they’d figure it out because of how I looked.”
Ryoka didn’t get it. She really didn’t, but it sounded like there was some elitism amongst classes. Class warfare in the literal sense? But she understood the general problem.
“People are bastards no matter what world you’re in. Look, forget about it. That class helped you out if you’re that strong without needing any training, right?”
Garia nodded and sniffed.
“It was helpful. Even if no one likes the class, we get some useful skills. [Lesser Strength] is the first skill most warriors get, but [Farm Workers] get it too. Um, I got that on my second level up. But then there’s [Enhanced Strength] which is what I have, and I’ve heard if you reach really high levels, some people get [Greater Strength].”
“And that’s rare?”
“I’ve never seen anyone with it. But yeah, [Enhanced Strength] only comes to warrior classes around Level 30. The fact that I got it so early on means I’m a lot stronger than normal. I barely feel thirty kilograms of weight.”
That was impressive. Ryoka had always guessed Garia was strong, but this afternoon had confirmed it for her. She paused, and thought before asking another question.
“If this skill is so good, why doesn’t everyone become a [Farm Worker] for a while before becoming an adventurer? That seems like the smartest move.”
Garia looked surprised.
“Why would they do that? No one wants to work on a farm. It’s boring and tiring, Ryoka.”
“But for the Skill—”
“You don’t know you’ll get it right away. I just got lucky. Okay, a lot of workers like me get at least [Lesser Strength] quickly, but it depends. Anyways, I worked on my father’s farm until I was eighteen and I only hit Level 14 even though I worked every day from dawn till dusk. It’s not worth it.”
It sounded—well, it sounded like there was some inefficiency in the way people thought about skills. Ryoka didn’t play many video games, but if she could get this [Enhanced Strength] from working on a farm as a kid, she’d do that. But then again—18 years was a long time it was true.
It was a moot point anyways since Ryoka didn’t intend to level, even if she was jealous of Garia’s strength. But the other girl was clearly embarrassed by her body and her class, so Ryoka let the topic drop.
“At least Persua got taught a lesson, although I missed my chance to break her arm. I’ll have to do it next time I see her.”
Garia winced. She knew Ryoka wasn’t kidding.
“Please don’t. If you do she’ll try something worse.”
“Worse than getting an adventurer to beat the crap out of me? I think I’ll take my chances.”
Ryoka shook her head. She’d have to do something about that girl. Killing her was tempting, but she probably couldn’t get away with it.
“Never mind. I appreciate the help. But I’ve got bigger fish to fry.”
“You’re hungry? I know a good place to eat if you want—”
“I mean, I’ve got stuff to do. Look, you said Ceria’s at Esthelm, right? Where’s that?”
Garia scratched her head as she tried to remember.
“Near the road that goes to Liscor. It’s down south, about sixty miles away?”
Ryoka nodded. She could do that in a single night. She eyed the rooftops surreptitiously and looked around. Casually, she raised her voice as she talked to Garia.
“I’ll sleep here for the night. Then I might go and head on down. If you want to learn how to fight properly, visit me there.”
“Maybe. I’m not sure what I’ll be doing—or if I want to fight. I don’t like violence.”
Ryoka clapped Garia on the shoulder.
“It’s your choice. But with a punch like that, it would be a shame not to learn how to hit the right way. I’ll teach you next time we meet, how about that?”
It was the first time Garia had ever seen Ryoka being pushy about—anything, really. She agreed she might give it a shot and watched as the barefoot girl jogged back to her inn for the night.
“Martial arts?”
Garia stared down at her fist. It was still callused from her days of long work out in the sun. She made a fist experimentally. It felt clumsy. But Ryoka had been impressed. That was rare enough.
“But all the way to Esthelm. That’s a far…”
But she didn’t have anything else she was committed to doing, and there was always work for someone willing to haul heavy goods long distance. More to the point, it might be better for Garia to skip town as well.
The Runner girl thought about what Persua’s reaction to the day’s events would be. Not to mention the local Adventurer’s Guild. They would not be happy to learn one of their own had been beaten by a civilian, let alone a Runner. Garia shuddered, and thought that maybe she would take a few long distance requests this week. Probably towards Esthelm, but at the very least away from Celum.
She began to slowly jog off back to her own inn. From a rooftop, the [Assassin] watched Garia go. She wasn’t important, but any friend of Ryoka needed to be reported to Magnolia. It was just as well the girl had ended the fight before he’d needed to step in.
Silently, the nondescript man followed Ryoka stealthily back to her inn. It would ordinarily have been a chore protecting the girl from the inevitable reprisal from both Runner and Adventurer’s Guild, but tonight was an exception. All he had to do was wait. Someone else had an appointment with Ryoka Griffin, whether the girl liked it or not.
Ryoka retired to her room early, and slept for about one hour. Well, slept was a strong word. She napped lightly, waking up when her iPhone quietly set off its alarm.
Having an iPhone was incredibly convenient. She just wished she could cast the [Repair] spell rather than needing a mage to do it. Just another reason to visit Ceria.
It was fully night as Ryoka got dressed. She moved around her room quietly, gathering items while her ears strained for the faintest noise.
Nothing. Well, she hadn’t expected to hear anything. She just hoped her closed curtains were enough to conceal her movements.
Ryoka’s eyes flicked to the window. In Celum – in every city in this world really, the night truly was dark. There were no neon lights or passing cars to provide illumination. And while some lamps and torches provided light on the street, the rooftops and many streets had only the faint moonlight to light the way.
Ryoka didn’t have much. Just some clothes, some money, her iPhone and books. And she’d sold the books she’d already read, so all of her possessions fit neatly into her Runner’s pack. She left a few coins on the table, and opened the window silently.
The [Assassin] who was reluctantly known as Theofore stood on the inn’s rooftop and tried to keep his senses alert. It was hard, though. He was dressed in nondescript dark clothing, but it wasn’t quite enough to keep the night’s breeze from chilling him. Winter would soon be upon the land, and when that happened stakeouts such as these would become direly painful without heating crystals or expensive magics.
But this was the job and he was a professional. Not a high-level one, but he was still competent enough to be assigned to Lady Magnolia on request. That was also because the Guild really didn’t want to waste a higher-level member on a trivial assignment, but this Ryoka Griffin had proven to be quite a challenge to keep track of. The High Passes incident had been disastrous. But at least she was asleep—
A movement below made Theofore jerk up. He heard a window slide open, and then a lithe figure swung herself up onto the roof. There was nowhere to run, and so Ryoka saw Theofore crouched silently in place over her room.
For a moment both figures stared at each other across the short distance. Then Ryoka got to her feet.
Theofore leapt up, hands going to his knives but of course he couldn’t attack. He had to keep her in the inn, though, which meant hand-to-hand combat. Again, he was trained in this area as well, but Ryoka Griffin was far stronger than the average Bronze-rank adventurer.
Ryoka stepped forwards on the roof and Theofore leaned back just in time to avoid the quick jab she aimed at his face. He struck out at her with his one unarmed combat skill – [Nerve Strike: Paralysis], but she swatted his hand down.
Damnation. This was bad. The inn’s roof was on a slant which made dodging and fighting twice as hard, even for an [Assassin]. If Theofore had the [Sure Footing] skill things might have been different but—
Ryoka lashed out with an overhead chop. It was completely easy to block, but that was the point. As the [Assassin]’s arm went up, Ryoka stepped forward and kicked.
He’d seen her fight, but he still wasn’t prepared for the low kick that smashed into his right leg, just above his knee. Theofore staggered. It felt as if an axe had struck his leg, numbing it with pain. He danced backwards, trying not to show any trace of agony on his face.
But Ryoka didn’t advance instead, she hefted her backpack and turned. Theofore cursed and dashed forwards, but she was already running. Ryoka’s bare feet kicked off as she ran along the slanted rooftop. She reached the edge and leapt.
In the darkness of the night, a lone figure hurtled over the rooftop and landed with a heavy thump on another rooftop. She ran, vaulted over a chimney with both hands and started leaping across buildings in a style known in her world as Parkour.
To Theofore, it looked hauntingly similar to the movements of higher level [Assassins]. He gave chase, cursing as his injured leg slowed him down. Ryoka was already gaining speed. He could not lose her.
She knew he was following her. Her head turned back for a moment as she saw him dashing across the roofs after her. Theofore couldn’t see in the darkness, but he thought she smiled for a moment.
Ryoka turned her head forwards and increased her speed. One hand came up and a finger rose in an unmistakable gesture.
Theofore growled and ran faster, ignoring his damaged limb. He wouldn’t lose her. He was a professional, and he’d been trained to outrun even [Runners] if necessary.
The two raced from rooftop to rooftop, vaulting, rolling, and jumping, probably giving the inhabitants within a start as they pounded across the uneven terrain. Ryoka was ahead of Theofore by a few houses, but he would catch her soon enough. He was an [Assassin], and she was just a [Runner].
He would catch her. [Assassins] were known for their ability to follow their targets on high-speed chases. They were known for their mastery of climbing and swift movement on rooftops. They were known for—
Ryoka leapt onto another roof and slid down the roof tiles, knocking them out of place. She kicked off the rooftop, flipped over and rolled as she struck the street cobblestones below. Theofore gaped as Ryoka rolled back onto her feet and kept running without even pausing. In seconds, she was out of sight.
He paused on the rooftop. Even if he’d known what she would do, he would have wasted valuable seconds finding a handhold and swinging down. He definitely would not have tried jumping all the way down like she did. Was it a Skill? Or—
It didn’t matter. She was on the ground, and Theofore knew he wouldn’t catch her now. He knew where she was going, which was a small mercy.
But Theofore knew Lady Magnolia would not be happy with his failure. Slowly, reluctantly he began moving back to the inn where Ryoka had been staying. He would have to report. There would be repercussions, and they would fall on his head. He would most likely be reassigned or a senior member of the Guild would be sent. But that was only the Guild. More importantly, Lady Magnolia would not be happy.
She wouldn’t be happy at all.
Lady Magnolia was a happy woman almost all of the time. She was deliberately happy, and good natured because people liked a happy person. It lowered their guards, and besides, she found happiness more preferable to suspicion or pessimism anyways.
And in this case, Magnolia was happy because she was finally able to reach a confrontation. True, it wasn’t on her terms, but you couldn’t win every battle. Ryoka had managed to avoid coming to her for quite some time, so Magnolia would go to her.
It was a poor bargaining position, to be the seeking party rather than the one holding all the cards, but sometimes it was necessary to be proactive. And in this case, Magnolia had decided to up the ante.
Happiness was good, as was being kind and generous. Generosity opened many doors that threats would not. And generosity and the implicit but unstated threat opened even more doors, in Magnolia’s experience.
Case in point. Magnolia was visiting an inn, a lowly establishment not suited to a woman of her rank and station. Personally, she would have enjoyed visiting an inn if it weren’t unseemly, but in this case her visit was purely business. And here generosity had done its work well. A kind suggestion or two and a few gold coins and the innkeeper had cleared out the inn for her.
It was late, and no doubt the occupants were unhappy to be roused and sent out. But some money and a meal courtesy of Lady Magnolia and most ills would be soothed.
A manservant opened the carriage door as Magnolia let Ressa help her out. A light rain had begun to fall over the city, so a cloth umbrella enchanted with the best [Water Resistance] spells was immediately placed over Magnolia’s head.
Her maids and a few other men and women she’d discreetly hired had spread out around the inn, and ‘discouraged’ several Runners and a few adventurers who’d been lurking around the back door.
Ressa accompanied Lady Magnolia to the second floor. The other [Assassins] and [Maids] remained below, awaiting Magnolia’s orders. She had no fear. Her Head Maid was enough of an escort even if Ryoka should prove belligerent, and of course a [Lady] had her own means of defense.
But Magnolia did not anticipate much trouble. Or rather, she expected she could handle whatever trouble emerged with her own Skills. She stopped in front of Ryoka’s door and knocked.
No response. Magnolia exchanged a glance with Ressa and she tried again, more loudly.
Again, there was no response. Magnolia frowned. She would have expected Ryoka to notice the inn’s occupants being roused, but ah, perhaps the girl was being stubborn. Very well.
Lady Magnolia raised her voice.
“Good evening Miss Griffin. May I come in?”
There was no response.
Strange. Lady Magnolia knew that should have worked. She raised her voice.
“Ryoka, my dear? Hello? Is anyone there?”
Dead silence. Lady Magnolia frowned.
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38 thoughts on “1.10 R”
pirateaba on January 1, 2017 at 10:21 am said:
You know, I had a comment, but I forgot what it was going to be. Let’s just say that this is a long chapter to welcome the next year in. It’s wild thinking I started this story only a few months ago. Here’s hoping next year treats me well. My New Year’s Goal is to be self-employed by the end of the year. It might be impossible, but it’s a great goal to have.
Thanks to everyone for reading! I hope you all have a great New Year and that 2017 treats us well. Thanks for reading and don’t get hit by fireworks!
TruthHut on January 1, 2017 at 11:00 am said:
Hey loved the chapter, slight error I found. When she looks back at the assassin it says miled. I’m pretty sure you mean smiled. Happy New Years
mnwxy on January 1, 2017 at 11:14 am said:
Did Ryoka leave the über-potion and the delivery behind? I want to make a comment about Magnolia, but it might be a spoiler…
Marmot on January 1, 2017 at 9:07 pm said:
Nah, Ryoka fit all of her possessions in her backpack. The special potion should be included.
kirindas on January 1, 2017 at 12:03 pm said:
Happy New Year! Thanks for the new chapter!
Beeschan on January 1, 2017 at 1:49 pm said:
“Discouraged” several runners and a few adventurers away from the inn, eh? Man, Persua works fast. One could almost assume that she’s a [Lady] of a different kind, in her own right.
Hat on January 1, 2017 at 2:21 pm said:
This bugged me. It’s like… ‘now it’s time to explain for the readers!’ and it seemed super awkward.
Pronoun mistake: She knew he was following him.
And a missing letter soon after: she miled for a moment.
pirateaba on January 1, 2017 at 10:38 pm said:
Oops. Will go back and fix spelling errors. And I’ll take a look at that section and see if I can’t segue into it better.
Kotawa on January 1, 2017 at 2:58 pm said:
*fangirling intensifies*
Cereza on January 1, 2017 at 9:06 pm said:
Do you think you’d ever do illustrations of characters? I have my own ideas of Ryoka/Lady Magnolia etc, but I’d love to see how you as a writer do them.
If I had the skill perhaps…but I think that its important to let readers imagine the characters as well.
Either way, I have no formal art training and I’d want to do a good portrait, so I wouldn’t do an illustration myself. Sorry.
You would think, if Ryoka’s acknowledging how valuable Garia’s skills are, that she might accept the skills and levels that this world is trying to give her. I suppose that’s just how stubborn she is?
Stubborn as a barn full of mules and she does regard leveling as “cheating”. More on why that might be later, but Ryoka has figured out she’s pretty weak even if she can win a fight against a no-name adventurer.
Marmot on January 2, 2017 at 1:15 am said:
A little cognitive dissonance between what she’ll respect others for and what she’ll allow in herself, perhaps?
pirateaba on January 2, 2017 at 7:23 am said:
Oh, definitely. She’s an outsider to this world, remember? She can accept people living in the system, but whether she joins it herself is another matter entirely.
monkeyfacedprickleback on January 2, 2017 at 1:27 am said:
Welp time for my once a web-serial bitch, whine and critique. This is intended as constructive criticism.
First of all I’d like to say that i enjoy both the “Wandering Inn” web serial and the “Runner” web serial, which segues nicely into my biggest whinge.
You’re publishing what are essentially two unconnected web serials in the same place. and you really shouldn’t be. I know what you’re think and it’s probably along the lines of
“No I’m not they are *totally* connected because look they’re in the same universe and the characters could meet and junk.”
See a novel in order to really be a novel need to follow a protagonist or multiple protagonists (deuteragonists and so on) who are proceeding along an overarching plot line.
To all appearances “Runner” and “the Wandering Inn” are not following the same plot-line. specifically “Runner” seems to be a slowly developing Hero’s Quest in which Ryoko will be forced to engage in a dangerous task of great importance and consequence.
On the other hand “the Wandering Inn” is a fantasy world slice of life following Erin getting accustomed to her new life, learning about the world she lives in, managing her inn making friend, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
With a insignificant exception at no point has one story affected the other. Nor are they following the same plot-line, at least not in a way i can regularly perceive as a reader. That exception is when Ryoko has her leg healed by the necromancer (who without Erin existing probably would have healed it anyway since he probably would have survived the way he was going until his friend got into contact with him, only instead of meeting at the inn it could have been a “ruined inn” or the outskirts of the town.)
Unless the two plot-lines and characters start interacting you don’t have one story. you have one story and a spin-off story. which you keep in the same area, and update on a shared schedule.
This is similar to have a novel “the mages tail” about a wizard with a tail, every five six or seven chapters have a chapter from Clifford the big red dog. This chapter has nothing to do with the rest of the book it’s just there to fill pages. the characters don’t wonder about a gigantic dog, there are no enormous steaming crap mystifying the denizens the wizards magical world. Just every now and the the book diverges into something that has nothing to do with the story. two stories in unnecessary proximity.
Now as the author you may be able to see ahead of the story to a point where the two stories come together. I as a reader cannot see any indication of this. so far there have been maybe three indcations of something like that on the (Distant) horizon. 1. the king of rot waking up, 2. weirdness with eye-lady Gavia, and 3. the new quest with the cave sage. None of these things are exactly the drums of impending war. maybe the grumbles of a drummer who as he wakes realizes he will have to go back to work in a couple weeks.
So far the only connection is that they take place in the same world. which isn’t really enough of a connection. batman and superman re both dc characters in the same world. but does every volume of superman comics also have a couple batman comic mixed in? No because when you pick up a superman comic you want to read about superman, not batman (why you’d read super man over the Bat I don’t know. Maybe you’re mentally deficient?)
I only sort-of want to tell you what to do so of instead of demanding you spend your free time writing and posting this story for free in the manner I’d prefer (even though I don’t pay for it) I’ll ask you to consider one of several things which, as a noncontributing reader who neither edits nor participated in the creative process, I feel would address this annoying whine.
1. reassign one of your protagonists to secondary protagonist or deuteragonist. Make it so instead of being a story about ERIN and a story about RYOKO, make it a story about “ERIN and Ryoko” or the other way around. turn two separate plot lines into a single cohesive plot line.
2. Give “Runner” it’s own tab and update schedule.maybe something like every 5 wandering inns, update Runner, or instead of wandering inn twice a week it’s runner once a week and Wandering Inn once a week. the point is you have a perfectly good story here don’t make it a second fiddle for another story.
3. finish one of the stories, kill the character off resolve happily whatever.
4. some other solution.
5. Don’t change anything. Hell it’s your story(ies) do what you want. Don’t let me cripple you’re creativity.
This is the only real complaint i have about these series’. I have other complaints Ryoko is a remorseless self centered bitch, you often Don’t show and Don’t tell leaving more mysteries then a non-mystery book should have, bitch bitch whine whine) but if i wanted a perfect novel I should be writing it myself. So you do you.
mnwxy on January 2, 2017 at 2:47 am said:
Damn. I sort of want to put a tl;dr here, but it wouldn’t do it justice.
Well huh. I’m really not sure how to respond to this one. Anyways, massive wall of text inbound so apologies in advance, readers.
There’s a lot I’d like to say, but I really don’t want to spoil any elements of the plot whether by confirming or denying what might happen later on. Mystery and suspense are key to stories, after all.
I guess I’ll respond by talking about the difference between epics and sagas, or at least how I understand them.
Epics are stories about heroes. They may be long or short (usually long), but they generally end with the hero’s final battle or death. Harry Potter for instance, is an epic. There’s no way it goes past Harry finishing his final battle because then he’s no longer a hero.
…Unless of course he has to go back in time and fight against time traveling Deatheaters and balance keeping history intact versus making it better. And he finds that Voldemort isn’t the same kind of evil he remembers, he get together with Hermione instead of Ginny–
That would be an epic fanfiction that I’ll never write. But the point I’m making is that epics have a finite life, while sagas can be longer.
Sagas tell the story of bloodlines, of heroic deeds over a period of time. Thus, sagas can become even longer. Game of Thrones is a saga because there’s no one hero involved. It’s literally telling history.
The Wandering Inn right now is an epic of two parts. But it could be a saga. When I started the story, I wrote it in such a way that it could grow far larger if it was a success.
Conversely, if my audience got bored, I could still end the story on a smaller scale. I had no idea whether anyone would like The Wandering Inn — and still don’t. The site is just taking off, and it will be up to readers whether it stands for longer than a year or whether I have to get a full time job or write a different story to keep people interested. But the potential is here.
That’s one reason why Ryoka exists on this blog. But you have a good point in that her tale isn’t The Wandering Inn’s story. I did think about separating her story into another blog, but I didn’t and I think I won’t for one important reason.
I write a chapter twice a week and post it here. If I were to suddenly split these chapters between two blogs, some readers would have no idea what was happening. This way, they can see each day that I’m uploading a chapter and choose to read it or not.
I could do multiple tabs on this blog as well, but the reason I keep all the chapters together is because they are more or less chronologically ordered. It would be a nightmare to find a way to represent that and keep the stories separate.
This may all be a mistake, but I’ll see how many other readers share your opinion. I certainly don’t mind your long response, and I suspect my reply is far longer. I need a bigger comments section.
However, if I could ask one thing from all commenters, it would be a bit of punctuation and spacing. I’d read an essay if you handed it to me, but formatting and capitalization/punctuation makes it easier to get through.
It seems odd I always get these comments about my plot right before a chapter comes out that addresses some of the issues. Next chapter might answer one or two of your issues, or maybe it won’t. Thanks for reading and commenting!
mindsword2 on January 2, 2017 at 11:02 pm said:
I like the style. I think I can see the two merging eventually. Not going to put down any guesses because its better if I’m surprised.
In some ways they are correct. It does feel like two separate stories. However, separating them would diminish the story as a whole and I like both of them. You write good stories and I am ever eager to see where they go.
Darksky on July 5, 2019 at 10:57 pm said:
From the future here, but when I was first reading through I wanted to say 5 all the way.
I had forgotten this comment existed but I am so glad it wasn’t listened to.
Or at least that it didnt limit pirateaba, and that the story is now a saga
Jason G Summers on January 2, 2017 at 11:42 am said:
chase instead of chaise, but that’s tiny – I’ve spent the weekend reading the entire thing, and I can say that your story and writing are better than nearly all of the self-published novels that I have read, and some of the traditionally published ones as well. I was sad when death suddenly became real for the lovely innkeeper, and incredibly angry at the slimy Runners who ambushed Ryoka and broke her leg. I also love her “I will not serve” attitude and plan to break Persua’s arm, although I think she should plan a little harder and kill that awful piece of work. Well done!
pirateaba on January 2, 2017 at 8:49 pm said:
Thanks for catching the spelling error! Glad you’re liking the story, and I hope it continues to entertain!
LaNuup on January 3, 2017 at 9:39 pm said:
Just caught up with the story. Usually I dont like those ‘I have been caught in a video game world’ stories but this one managed to get quite interessitng. Bith with Erin submitting to the rules of this world and with Ryoka who sees the drawbacks and stands independent.
Ermenegildo on January 4, 2017 at 12:44 am said:
I love this story, i have only recently discovered it but i want to thank you for the time and dedication you put behind all of this.
You are doing an amazing work (at least in my opinion).
Well thank you as well for reading. It’s because of you guys that I write. Hope you continue liking the rest of the story!
nono on February 9, 2017 at 7:39 pm said:
“the street, the rooftops” — double space
(“across the few feet. Then Ryoka got to her feet.” — feet – feet word choice?)
“Theofore gaped at Ryoka rolled back into her feet” — [gaped] as / words; onto / to [her feet]
“Theodore” — Theofore
AvidFan on May 4, 2017 at 3:40 pm said:
I love your use of colour instead of italics/bold/symbols for the … Magically infused words. It would be nice if serials used colour for normal speech, especially in the more character heavy ones. Although I guess it would be pointless for people who are blind or colour blind.
Reminds me how I once tried to make a script that would make a picture or description of a character popup when I hover over their name… I stopped once I realised hovering over doesn’t work well for smartphones, and when it comes to translated serials, one character is sometimes referred to with lots of different names, titles and combinations of the two. It’s hard to write a script when lots of stuff needs to be taken in context… And names are commonly misspelt (can’t complain when they sometimes translate a chapter a day).
Throwback on August 21, 2017 at 2:00 pm said:
As much as i love erin, I’m struggling to connect with Ryoka. Mainly because she feels to me like a mary sue.
World-class runner able to outrun what are essentially impossible levels of speed granted by the levelling system, check. Ok, seems bs but i can deal. I assume this will be explained later in the story.
MMA fighter having reached muay thai 4th Dan at age 18 and capable of knocking over 250lb-plus humanoids with only one good leg… At this point I’m thinking ‘seriously, pick one impossible skill, not two!’.
And now she has insane parkour skills as well. I understand you want a powerful, kick-arse character and that’s great – but ryoka feels like too much.
I can ignore the loss of immersion as i read because you write action well and i want to read more about erin. I know this is months too late and way too late in the story (and it’s your story not mine) but i honestly feel ryoka would be more interesting without her insane combat skills (parkour not seeming like a huge deal atm).
jacobpaige on October 22, 2017 at 3:43 am said:
Why does everyone keep calling it a delivery? She didn’t deliver anything and they know it.
I’ve been wondering this for a while now, but how did she outrun a level 32 Drake with at least some specialization in speed when she has no class or skills? The kind of speed and endurance required for that is greater than what you see from Olympic athletes judging by the way it was described, and the level of power ascribed to people of that level.
stevenneiman on November 27, 2017 at 8:17 am said:
Four reasons. One, Ryoka is a really good runner in terms of everything except [skills], since she’s in shape and knows more about proper running form than probably anyone in the world she’s in. Two, almost everyone in the world is overly reliant on skills that can only take them so far. That goes extra for someone who is explicitly lazy and that Ryoka noted had terrible running form. Three, Relc is faster than most people because he’s got a high level in a combat class, but he is by no means specialized for speed, especially while wearing full kit. and Four, Ryoka’s speed is a bit exaggerated beyond what is realistic, just not as much as you seem to think.
One small complaint: hiring runners to run ore is pretty unrealistic. Even if runners who carry heavy loads like Garia frequently get skills from the [strength] series, a cart could still carry heavier loads and ore just doesn’t have the value density to be worth something more special, especially since it won’t spoil and the source will usually go to the same destination for years at a time, meaning that a steady progression of slower ore carts would have a very similar effect at a lower cost. Runners might be able to carry heavy-ish loads, but the reason you pay for them is because you want something delivered quickly and securely, and ore doesn’t really need to be either of those things.
rahler on December 23, 2017 at 4:13 pm said:
Smallish gripe, but this really bothered me: chain mail is flexible. It would have almost no effect on blunt attacks like kicks and punches, and it wouldn’t get dented any more than a cotton shirt would.
tyriantybalt on February 19, 2019 at 8:54 pm said:
{Love your stuff! I was told that leaving a comment is how to point out spelling mistakes? I noticed some, which I marked with an asterisk. I hope it doesn’t come off as rude, since I only noticed them because I’ve read everything five times now!}
Well, it hadn’t really been going that well in the first place and Ryoka bluntly shot down all of *Fal’s attempts to ask about the High Passes or her delivery.
sunflowerofice on August 9, 2019 at 6:16 pm said:
I am loving ryoka even more!
greatwyrmgold on October 12, 2019 at 10:20 am said:
The more Ryoka explains herself, the more I hate her and how she’s written.
greatwyrmgold on October 12, 2019 at 9:41 pm said:
How the frig is this the same character who had so much difficulty saying “no thank you ma’am, I have other deliveries to make” back when she was introduced? Does she only have social anxiety when she’s not being a bastard? Or is this supposed to be character development I missed that let’s the bastard hidden behind the facade of social anxiety show through?
greatwyrmgold on October 12, 2019 at 10:14 pm said:
Actually, mind control might have been involved. So how is this the same girl who was pressured into taking an unpleasant delivery with Garcia by her asking politely?
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September 23, 2016 · by DanLevine · in History and Politics, Male Film Directors · 7 Comments
The high concept of The Lobster, explained briefly:
In an alternate universe, every single person past a certain age is sent to a resort/prison in the country where they’re given a certain number of days to find a mate or else they’re surgically turned into an animal of their choosing. Every night the resort prisoners are forced to attend mixers and/or watch the older couple who run the resort give presentations resembling medieval morality plays demonstrating the sad pointlessness of single existence pushed too far. The single people can earn extra time to find a mate by hunting down single people who escaped the resort without being turned into animals. They shoot the escapees with tranquilizer dart guns in the woods near the resort. There’s a resistance movement in the woods that doesn’t allow any kind of romantic or sexual contact between its members.
That was a mouthful… anyway, onto the fun stuff:
The Lobster plays out a framework that’s been the basis for movies as wide-ranging as the original Star Wars to Woody Allen’s Bananas to Logan’s Run-man in oppressive/ineffectual society escapes said society to join a resistance movement where he meets a girl. Except usually the future/foreign country/other galaxy etc. has to look dangerous; it ultimately exists as the backdrop for the growth of trust and romance between the leads. Usually, the future/foreign country/other galaxy exists as a contrast by which the hero can define themselves in the starkest possible terms as the competent and effective individual (or, in the case of Bananas, a parody of such.) The individual comes out of the trauma of existing in society having taken revenge on, in the case of Star Wars, the literal authoritative father figure, in the rest some sort of surrogate paternal authority. Having killed the father, they can then have sex. This mixture of blatant Freudianism and frontier individualism is perhaps America’s defining mythical archetype; we return to it obsessively and take great interest in even its smallest variants.
We take such an interest because of the enormity of what this myth represents to us as a culture-it’s one of the first things that children are exposed to and they’re exposed to it over and over and over again in different guises. It probably forms much of the subconscious language and cues that make Donald Trump seem so comfortable and familiar, even inspiring to so much of the country. Even the left that’s ostensibly horrified by Trump don’t seem especially energized against him except in small bursts to try to legitimize Hillary Clinton. He’s a fascist demagogue, but he’s our fascist demagogue. We’ve been collectively preparing to like someone like Donald Trump for most of our lives. We’ve already been prepped for one end of the world scenario for a while; it’s hard for a populace to focus on two potential ends to everything at once.
After a century of increasingly intense media saturation attempting to enforce the social norms more aggressively and entirely than at any other point in human history, everything from heterosexual coupling to even the rebel myth seem like words that have been repeated to the point of losing any meaning. Surrounded by sounds and images that have spread themselves too thin to romance the senses; they’re experienced as a disciplinary beating rather than a seduction. The hand has been overplayed. Hillary Clinton, because she’s more attached to the continuance of these aesthetics, can’t seem to increase a polling lead over a guy who’s publicly attacked not just Latinos and Muslims but police officers and military personnel, a person who has been repeatedly and very publicly compared to Adolf Hitler (but who, it should be noted, did not vote in favor of the Iraq war and hasn’t been endorsed by Henry Kissinger who has indirectly killed as many or more people than Hitler did.)
The Lobster is a document of this collective exhaustion.
It skews the hero’s journey framework just enough to remove the elements that allow direct viewer identification or even the impetus to identify-who would want to be any of the characters in this film? Colin Farrell plays the protagonist, an overweight man who seems to be pushed into situations and who doesn’t take an independent action until the very last shot of the film. The leaders of both the resort and the resistance have no charisma; they rule by dull but forceful paternalism. Their authority exists in the extent to which their opposing ideologies frame the other as being unlivable. This strategy works because neither the puritanical resistance nor the boringly oppressive resort is actually livable.
In the woods, after escaping the resort, Colin Farrell’s character meets and falls in love with Rachel Weisz’s character. They can’t continue to exist in the resistance but similarly can’t rejoin society. When the resistance leader discovers that Weisz broke the rules, she’s taken to a surgeon and blinded, a parallel to the mainstream of the society’s ritual of surgically transforming single people into animals and similarly blunt in its symbolism. The resistance stage a raid on the hotel and in a clever sequence puncture the supposed basis of the resort-domestic love-by showing the couple in charge don’t actually love each other. I won’t ruin how they do that for those who haven’t seen the film, suffice it to say that they combat artifice with artifice.
At the same time, while puncturing the basis of the society, the resistance doesn’t have anything actually feasible to replace it with. The couple at the center of the film have no place to go and the film ends with Farrell, in his first self-determined action in the film’s running time, blinding himself in a bathroom.
With the society and its opposition equally distasteful, the true revolutionary act is to focus on one’s own problems and be blind. Neither character has anything even close to the sort of leverage where they could change the society. All they can do is seize the rest of their lives from the bleakness of the situation.
Do we have any better options in the United States in the present moment?
Bawb Cawx · September 23, 2016 - 2:11 am · Reply→
How about a monastery in the woods? With some Buddhist “camps” someone will feed you at your little hut, so you can truly isolate from all this madness. And then you fall in love with your feeder. Oh oh. Back to materialism and a lovely body that Buddhists say is just a bag of bones and wind. But if you totally reject the material world, your body cannot support your wonderful spirit-being. See a specialist? “The dichotomy of being a sentient being”. Awareness is the best you’ll ever get, and even that may be a delusion.
srogouski · September 23, 2016 - 4:07 am · Reply→
First thought:
Male Feminist: You have no right to have sex.
Nerd: But dude. They’re going to turn me into a fucking centipede.
Male Feminist: Get over your human entitlement.
Second thought:
Two movies along similar lines. Mauvais Sang. Never Let Me Go
Third thought:
All this blinding, hmm, seems sort of Oedipal.
Kitchen Rants · September 23, 2016 - 5:06 am · Reply→
After having seen the film, I totally agree with this:
“The leaders of both the resort and the resistance have no charisma; they rule by dull but forceful paternalism.”
The Lobster (2015) | Writers Without Money · September 25, 2016 - 7:03 am · Reply→
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[…] The new fascism is not a politics of possibility but a politics of exhaustion. It’s not founded in the shadow of imagined utopia but in the shadow of imagined extinction. […]
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Free E-Course Lesson 8
Chapter 3: Art, Poetry, and Beauty
Part 1: Leftover Pizza Is Not Art
Cradle of Ptomaine
In philosophy, as in many other disciplines, good definitions are the product of lengthy debate…. Children talk, and know what they are talking about, although they cannot define even one of the terms they use. Using and understanding a language does not involve being able to define its terms…. Definition allows us to improve our use of language…. —Norman Swartz, “Definitions, Dictionaries, and Meaning” Copyright © Norman Swartz 1997
This revision: September 27, 1997. Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
Art: A Definite ‘Maybe”
Now, let’s define and clarify our terms.
Art, poetry, beauty, and the self are huge ideas, not easily defined. The practice of defining is practically a science in itself, one that is rather neatly described by philosopher Norman Swartz (quoted above) in “Definitions, Dictionaries, and Meaning.” In that article, Swartz describes seven types of definitions. The type we will be using here is called “operational.” Briefly, an operational definition is one that we agree to agree on, whether or not it is strictly accurate.*
I have chosen and adapted the definitions that I believe will be most useful to us. Here are a few to get us started:
Some Definitions of Art, Poetry, and Verse
In short, art (including poetry) requires creativity, emotional honesty, originality, skill, imagination, and intention. In our current context, beauty and spirituality must also be present.
For there to be art, there must be an artist. Therefore, according to our operational definition…
Leftover pizza is not art
Just as you can call yourself Arnot-Jean-Jacques Feuillette [Seventh Sanctum French Male Name Generator ] or Belching Doom Kangaroo [Seventh Sanctum Humorous Monster Name Generator] if you want to, you can string a bunch of words together and call them a poem:
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on a poaching ä safari in Kenya
shadowing the uncommon solicitor. **
U Ua-Uo U (uracil) (NLM) UA UAA UAG
UAL Ubidecarenone Ubiquinone
Ubiquitin Ubiquitination Ubiquitous
UBT UDP-glucuronosyltransferase UGA
UL Ulcer Ulcer aphthous Ulcer
Buruli Ulcer duodenal Ulcer esophageal ***
At a poetry reading, you could breathe raggedly into the microphone for precisely seventeen seconds and then pronounce the word ruction — and call it a poem.
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If art is merely “an expression of human creativity”—a widely held belief—then anyone can be an artist. You don’t have to take classes or anything. There’s no particular discipline involved. You thought of it, you created it; ergo, it’s art.
Let’s say you have created a painting that looks something like this (the outside border is the frame):
Dash, by You
It’s art, all right, no question about it — an “expression of your creativity.” But surely you have applied your creativity at other times in other ways that might not qualify as “art.” Like the time you told your dad you had been detained at a roadblock while law-enforcement officers searched hundreds of vehicles for an escaped homicidal maniac, and that’s why you got home past your curfew. “Creative,” your dad said, and then he grounded you “for your own protection” until the missing maniac had been returned to custody.
Notwithstanding, you take your painting, which you have titled Dash, to an art gallery for validation by a real professional art personage, but Monsieur is unavailable at present. Still, you are encouraged by the inscrutability of the other works of art on display, although, examining them closely, you wish you had thought to vomit on your work of art before framing it.
Depending on the year and the location, you might see the following examples of art in the world’s most respected museums:
One of 90 copies of Merda d’artista, by Piero Manzoni, consisting of thirty grams of Manzoni’s feces sealed in a tin can. The Tate gallery in London reportedly paid more than $20,000 for one of these copies in 1961.
Piss Christ, a crucifix immersed in the urine of the artist, Andres Serrano. This is one of Serrano’s more traditional works.
Tom Friedman’s Untitled, a dead ladybug in a Styrofoam cup, which sold for almost $30,000.
Other works given the stamp of approval by critics and patrons of the arts include
This poem (reproduced here in its entirety):
The poet, Aram Saroyan, explains that his intent was to change the word light “from a verb (the agency of illumination) to a noun that yet radiates as light does. The double ghgh seems to work in that way.” The poem was published in the 1969 American Literary Anthology [Source: Rapportage, the literary journal of the Lancaster Literary Guild, Fall 2005].
A novel consisting of blank pages.
A musical work by composer John Cage titled 4’33” (Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds), in which a pianist sits at a piano for four minutes and thirty-three seconds without playing a single note.
My opinion on the more mystifying or malodorous forms of art mentioned above is that they represent a variety of artists and motives:
The genuine artist who has been formally trained, has exhibited talent, and has grown bored with pretty pictures and conventional media (water colors, for example, as opposed to the more exotic elephant dung à la The Holy Virgin by Chris Ofili).
The person who may or may not have talent but whose principal motive is to shock.
The artist who wants to make a social or political statement, illustrating the ugliness and depravity that surrounds us, as if we didn’t know.
The con artist who has seen an easy way to make $20,000 and get invited to lecture at prestigious universities by creatively assembling the contents of a wastebasket using duct tape, which can be analyzed for its likeness to the ephemeral quality of substantial yet emergent flora that have been dispossessed of their progression toward ultimate decay and regeneration… which everybody swallows (figuratively) because they don’t want to admit that they think it’s stupid.
The true artistic genius who is totally out of my league.
I repeat, art is not merely “an expression of human creativity.” If it were, then Auschwitz was art.
Art is disciplined
Few would argue that art is an external expression (a dance, a sculpture) of a spiritual or at least an intangible quality (such as love, beauty, anger, or despair). I believe, with Keats, that “beauty is truth, truth beauty.” I am unable to separate spirit from beauty, or to believe that whatever emanates from the life-force common to us all can lack either truth or beauty.
Again, beauty is essential in our operational definitions of art and poetry. In theory, however, I am willing to entertain other viewpoints.
Is found or readymade art — noted examples are Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel and Tracey Emin’s My Bed — intentional? Does it require skill? Can you just pick up any old thing and call it art?
Possibly, if the picker-upper is legitimately an artist. As my poetry professor at Stanford University explained when we wanted to let our free spirits loose on paper and he made us write sonnets instead: You must work from the inside out; examine the interior of your territory before you explore the nether reaches; know what the boundaries are before you stretch them; internalize the discipline until it is part of you; master the discipline in order to not be mastered by it.
I know a few people who have arranged every aspect of their lives so as to spend as much time as possible hang-gliding or soaring. “It is the ultimate experience in freedom,” they say. “It sounds wonderful,” I say. “I’d like to try it.”
Do they hand me their gear and say, “Great idea. Go for it”? No. They warn me about the expense and the hours of training and practice and the necessary physical conditioning and the skills, specific to the sport, they had to acquire. The cost of freedom was servitude to the goal.
In these pages we are concerned with the discipline of poetry as a tool to realize your potential for joy.***** We are not “searching for joy” or “journeying toward joy.” The joy is right here, right now. It might be guilt-bound, fear-encrusted, or anger-suffused. It might be hiding in your gut, having run for cover from an abusive parent or an oppressive spouse. (Many people, not all of whom are modern-day snake-oil salesmen or delusional, believe that the site of a physical illness is related to the way in which you have tried to shield your core being from harm.)
NEXT: What is beauty, and is it optional?
* “Many philosophers have chosen… to leave some terms undefined… [claiming that we] cannot define being, unity and similar concepts.” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition, accessed January 12, 2008
** Assembled from numerous Random Sentence Generators on the Internet
*** MedicineNet.com medical dictionary
**** Duchamp’s urinal, which he exhibited as My Fountain (1917) created quite a fuss in the art world, as did Emin’s My Bed. According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Bed), “the artwork generated considerable media furor, particularly over the fact that the bedsheets were stained with body secretions and the floor had items from the artist’s room (such as condoms [and] a pair of panties with menstrual period stains…. The bed was presented as it had been when Emin had not got up from it for several days due to suicidal depression…. [During the Tate exhibition] two performance artists, Yuan Chai and Jian Jun Xi, jumped on the bed with bare torsos in order to ‘improve’ the work, …[calling] their performance Two Naked Men Jump Into Tracey’s Bed. The men also had a pillow fight on the bed for around fifteen minutes, to applause from the crowd, before being removed by security guards.”
***** We will explore the discipline of poetry in “The Therapeutic Value of Strict Poetic Forms” in a later chapter. Gosh, that sounds so pompous. A better title might be, “When You Focus on Form, Feeling Flows.” It’s alliterative, too.
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Reston Hospital Center earns honor for heart attack treatment
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Reston Hospital Center has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline Silver Receiving Quality Achievement Award for implementing procedures that could help save lives following a heart attack.
Every year, more than 250,000 people experience an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) the most deadly type of heart attack caused by a blockage of blood flow to the heart that requires timely treatment.
To prevent death, it’s critical to restore blood flow as quickly as possible, either by mechanically opening the blocked vessel or by providing clot-busting medication.
The American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline program’s goal is to reduce system barriers to prompt treatment for heart attacks, beginning with the 911 call and continuing through hospital treatment.
“Reston Hospital Center is dedicated to improving the quality of care for our patients who suffer a heart attack, and the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline program is helping us accomplish that goal through nationally respected clinical guidelines,” John Deardorff, President and CEO of Reston Hospital Center and HCA’s Northern Virginia Market, said in a statement.
“We are pleased to be recognized for our dedication and achievements in cardiac care, and I am very proud of our team.”
In addition to receiving the Mission: Lifeline Silver Receiving award, Reston Hospital Center has also been recognized as a recipient of Mission: Lifeline’s Silver-Plus award, which recognizes the hospital has reached an achievement score of 75 percent or greater for treating STEMI transfer patients from other facilities within 120 minutes.
“Achieving this award means the hospital has met specific reporting and achievement measures for the treatment of their patients who suffer heart attacks and we applaud them for their commitment to quality and timely care,” said James G. Jollis, MD, Chair of the Mission: Lifeline Advisory Working Group.
Reston Hospital Center earned the award by meeting specific criteria and standards of performance for the quick-and-appropriate treatment of STEMI patients by providing emergency procedures to re-establish blood flow to blocked arteries when needed.
Eligible hospitals must adhere to these measures at a set level for 12 consecutive months to receive this award.
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Fighting Waze and Google, Fairfax Co. finds itself gridlocked over cut-throughs
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As apps like Waze and Google Maps sent more commuters through neighborhoods, Fairfax County pushed back with cut-through restrictions; a new proposal could give residents permits to ignore those restrictions.
There are a number of rush-hour turn restrictions in Fairfax County to thwart GPS navigation apps like Waze that are routing drivers through neighborhoods, and more are planned.
At the same time, there’s an effort underway to provide residents with special cut-through permits. These permits would allow drivers to turn into their own neighborhoods during restricted hours.
Earlier this year, the Virginia General Assembly cleared the way for Fairfax to create a residential cut-through permit program.
“The residents are impacted … the same adverse way as the inconsiderate people who are cutting through their neighborhoods. They all have to go out of their way, including the residents. And so this is a beautiful way of solving that problem and creating equity for the people who live in neighborhoods that other people want to cut through,” said John Foust, the Dranesville District supervisor on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.
Currently Foust’s district has one cut-through restriction, and a second one is planned.
View the current and proposed cut-through restrictions in Fairfax County
But in a meeting Tuesday, some supervisors on the Transportation Committee expressed skepticism over the proposed ordinance that would create cut-through permits.
“I have a lot of problems with the proposal,” said Supervisor Penny Gross of the Mason District, which currently has two rush-hour restrictions. “The program has worked beautifully … I don’t see anything broken here that needs to be fixed,” she said.
Some supervisors expressed concern that even if they carve out exceptions, the county will continue to be frustrated by GPS-enabled algorithms that will simply divert drivers through other neighborhoods.
“Frankly, things like Waze are going to continue to make this a problem, because this problem will move,” said Supervisor Jeff McKay, Lee District.
The cut-through permit program would provide permits to residents for all vehicles registered at the address. Active duty military, diplomats and full-time students would be also able to apply for a permit with proof of residency.
But some supervisors say it’s wrong that the proposed ordinance would not allow permits for visitors including caregivers, relatives, nonresident owners and service providers.
“What if you have a child care provider; what if you have elderly loved ones living with you and you have elder care?” asked Fairfax County’s Sharon Bulova. “These restrictions would probably cause a problem in the community,” Bulova said.
Supervisors also raised doubts about whether the cut-through permitting program could be properly enforced to the satisfaction of residents. Others raised alarm about the estimated $200,000 cost of creating the program.
There’s still time for both the supervisors and their constituents to weigh in: hearings are expected to be conducted in the spring of 2020.
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LET'S WELCOME THE AUTHOR OF: Chubby & Charming ~ Mary E. Thompson
Let’s welcome
Rad-Reader: How did you this series come about?
Mary: I had lunch with a friend and told her my idea. I’d read some books about women like me, women who were overweight but didn’t love any of them. I realized I was insane if I didn’t write what I knew’ with this series. My friend encouraged me to write it, said it sounded great. I’m so happy I listened to her!
Rad-Reader: What was it about Mandy’s character that spoke to you and said I have to write about her?
Mary: Mandy reminded me a lot of myself, to be honest. She was someone with a great group of friends, who didn’t feel the need to be involved in a relationship. She was someone who put on a brave face but had a lot of fears buried deep. When I met my husband, I was the same. It took me almost nine months of being friends with him to realize he might like me also. Thankfully, like Mandy, I got over my fears and ended up with an incredible man!
Rad-Reader: Xander is a sexy ass character and an alpha male too yet when he is with Mandy he is a total softy. How did you come to and why did you have him portrayed that way?
Mary: I think love, true love, means being soft and squishy. When you think about the person you love, you should be ready to fall on your knees to do anything to make them happy. Xander is strong and determined, and yeah, a bit of an alpha, but when he met Mandy, something clicked for him.
Rad-Reader: Have you known a relationship like this to have firsthand experience because a lot of the emotions were spot on?
Mary: I think I do. Most of my stories end up somewhat based on my own marriage. Not entirely, of course, but the emotions that I pull in are definitely ones that I feel about my husband. He’s a wonderful man who supports me, and I’m so lucky to have him!
Rad-Reader: I believe I do the same thing when I write. The emotion can come up quick too. It's amazing how it can work into a character before you know it. Not the storyline but the emotion like you said.
Rad-Reader: Do you think Mandy kept looking for hidden meaning behind everything Xander did at first trying to find fault? If so, for what reason?
Mary: Oh, yes, definitely! She never had a man like her for the right reasons. Between her past, and that of her friends, she didn’t trust men. She thought they were either interested in sex, or in someone skinny, or both! Mandy was suspicious. She struggled to think Xander would want her. I’ve been there. It sucks.
Rad-Reader: When Xander first saw Mandy what did he notice first her personality or her looks that he liked?
Mary: I think when they first met, at the coffee shop, he had a picture in his mind. We all do before we meet someone that we’ve spoken to but never met. When she walked over to his table, I think he was a little hurt to realize she didn’t want to talk to him. He always struck me as someone who saw past the walls Mandy put up. Someone who saw her inside. But to answer your question, I think he already knew he liked her personality, so he was looking at her!
Rad-Reader: Why do you think her weight didn’t bother him and it did his friends?
Mary: Some people are just jerks. It’s a lesson many of us have to learn. Some guys like women with a little extra weight and some don’t. Some people like to make fun of others to make themselves feel better, and some see who a person truly is. There are a lot of things to see beneath the surface of all of us. Not everyone is willing to look. Xander was, his friends… well, they’re those jerks.
Rad-Reader: Why did her weight seem to bother her more than him?
Mary: It was something she dealt with forever. She’d been shunned many times by guys she liked and people in her life because of her weight. Xander didn’t care that she was overweight. He liked her, and that was all he cared about.
Rad-Reader: This was a highly sexual book. Was that done mostly to let readers know that BBW’s are capable of bringing it in the bedroom or any place as per your book? Or were you just writing an erotica with a BBW flair?
Mary: I don’t think of my books as erotica, to be honest. They’ve been called that by a number of people, but I work very hard to make sure my books have a story besides the sex. I want there to be something to it other than just sex, but I think exploring that side of a relationship is important. I also think it’s important to show that you don’t have to look like a porn star to have amazing sex. Big and beautiful women have all the same parts as every other woman. Use them! And enjoy them!
Rad-Reader: It does have a story for sure. I'm glad to hear that you write it for the story aspect of it and not for the erotica of it because BBW's do have lives although there have been some that I have read that you would think all they were made for were to get some guy off when it came to his fetish.
Rad-Reader: Xander started walking that fine line of possessiveness. Do you think she handled it well with the issue around Drew?
Mary: I think Mandy was excited to meet Xander’s friends and was a little thrown by the others. When she saw Drew, he was so different from the others. A decent guy. A guy that wanted to be around her like Xander did, but not in a creepy way like he was going to try to steal her from Xander. She also felt like she knew him. When I met my husband’s best friend, I felt like I knew him even though we’d never met. Xander getting possessive was a little funny for me because I never saw him as that kind of guy, but he was falling, too. And he’d already had Mandy turn him down. He was anxious. But I think she handled it well. I think calling him on it and telling him he was the only guy she wanted was the best way to deal with it. Because it was true. It was what she felt. She loved him, and no one else was even on her radar!
Rad-Reader: I thought she did too. I just thought it was kind of fun that he didn't put the Barbie twins in their place and walk away from them without giving them the time of day.
Rad-Reader: Mandy wanted to put total blame on Xander for what happened at the party. But what he told her in the car and her inner voice. If it didn’t feel, right, why did she go? She has some responsibility then for not speaking up to him, Right?
Mary: She spent their whole relationship waiting for the other shoe to drop. She was completely convinced that he was going to be just like every other hot guy she’d ever known. I think that’s one of the reasons readers have enjoyed this book. It’s real. Thin people are judged just as much as overweight people. We judge each other. We all have preconceived notions. None of it is fair, but that’s why you have to look beneath the surface to the person hidden inside. Mandy was embarrassed, and nothing Xander said would change her mind. Not in that moment at least.
Rad-Reader: I really liked the feel of the character Drew but then he just fell by the wayside. What happens to him?
Mary: I loved Drew. He was always a character that I had a soft spot for. And he gets his own happily ever after in book seven in the series, Husky & Hot!
Rad-Reader: That is nice to know. He was a cool character and I am glad he finds some for himself.
Rad-Reader: Do the childhood friends he fought with ever come and make amends for their behavior or did they let the friendship die?
Mary: Oh, no. Those friendships are over. There are some things that can’t be repaired.
Rad-Reader: Claire seemed so tortured from her past. Will she find a guy that will help heal her heart and give her soft place to land and lay her head and her heart?
Mary: Yes! She gets her happily ever after, too! Lush & Lovely, the second book in the series is Claire’s story.
Rad-Reader: Good deal! :)
Rad-Reader: If your book was made into a movie who would you have play…
Mandy: A model from Pinterest
Xander: Tyler Hoechlin
Claire: Chrissy Teigen
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Drew: Jason Mamoa
Mandy: A woman on Pinterest
Xander: Jensen Ackles
Claire: A woman on Pinterest
Drew: Stephen Amell
Rad-Reader: What song best describes your couple or your book as a whole?
After Hearing Her Voice
I Choose You ~ Mario
After Their First Date Went Bad
Let Me Help You ~ Mario
Mary: I listen to country music, and this song spoke to me. It always made me think of Mandy and Xander, and him wanting her to meet his friends, wanting to show her off.
"Show You Off - Dan & Shay"
Rad-Reader: What do you like to do on the weekend?
Mary: Enjoy my family! We do movie night and game night and go to the park or enjoy outside. My kids are still little (7 and 9) so they’re active, and they get us up and moving every day!
Rad-Reader: What was your favorite band as a teen?
Mary: I’ve listened to country music since I was an early teen. I think my favorite then was Garth Brooks. I still tear up when I hear some of his music. So many country songs are like miniature love stories. They’re beautiful.
Rad-Reader: Who was your favorite movie star as a teen?
Mary: John Travolta. Don’t judge me!
Rad-Reader: Hahaha! ; )
Rad-Reader: What is your lucky number?
Mary: 7. I don’t know why. It just always has been.
Rad-Reader: What is your favorite drink?
Mary: I mostly drink water, but when I want something different, I go for Coke or wine. I’m a big fan of wine!
Rad-Reader: What is your next project and when is it coming out?
Mary: The next thing coming from me is Everything She Never Wanted. It’s part of my Raise A Glass series and will be out August 22. The final book in the Big & Beautiful series, book thirteen titled Ample & Alluring, will be out October 3. It’s my first Christmas book, and I’m really excited about it!
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Former Minneapolis police officer found guilty in 2017 death of unarmed woman shot after calling 911
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Former Minneapolis Police Officer Mohamed Noor was found guilty by a jury on Tuesday in the 2017 death of Justine Damond, an unarmed woman who was fatally shot shortly after she called 911 to report a possible rape.
The decision from the jury, who received the case on Monday, followed three weeks of testimony in the trial against Noor.
The former officer was found guilty of third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. However, the jury found him not guilty of second-degree murder.
Defense attorneys have said Noor was reacting to a loud noise and feared an ambush in the deadly incident. Prosecutors have argued there was no evidence Noor faced a threat that justified the use of deadly force.
Body camera footage of the encounter was played earlier this month during the trial, showing the woman’s final moments, as well as officers’ unsuccessful attempts to save her.
One officer’s body camera showed Noor and his partner taking turns performing CPR on Damond before firefighters arrived, the Minneapolis Star Tribune previously reported. Another body camera video showed Noor being taken to a supervisor squad.
Officer Mark Ringgenberg testified Noor kept asking if Damond was OK.
“I just told [Noor] not to say anything,” Ringgenberg said. “I don’t remember specifics.”
Noor lost his job with the police department after charges were filed against him.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Fox News’ Kathleen Joyce and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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UNCC warns of ‘assailant’ on campus; 3 reportedly shot
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The University of North Carolina at Charlotte was on lockdown Tuesday as officials warned of an “active assailant.”
The campus was locked down around 6 p.m. and the university advised those in the area to “remain in a safe location.”
Aerial shot at UNC of the campus bell tower and football stadium.
The school’s Office of Emergency Management tweeted that “shots” were reported near the Kennedy Building.
“Run, Hide, Fight. Secure Yourself immediately,” the office tweeted.
Three students were shot, according to Fox affiliate WGHP. A suspect was also reportedly in custody.
This is a developing story; please check back for updates.
The Latest: 7 Tennessee victims died of blunt force injuries
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FILE – This undated booking file photo provided by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation shows Michael Cummins. Court records show Michael Cummins was convicted and released on probation repeatedly in the two years leading up to the discovery of the bodies over the weekend at two homes in rural Sumner County. Law enforcement agents arrested Cummins on Saturday, April 27 about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from one of the two crime scenes at separate homes in rural Sumner County, Tenn. (Tennessee Bureau of Investigation via AP, File)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Latest on the investigation into seven people killed in rural Tennessee (all times local):
The medical examiner in Nashville says the causes of death for seven people found dead in two homes in rural Tennessee included multiple blunt force injuries and some sharp force injuries.
Dr. Feng Li said Tuesday in a phone interview that all seven people were the victims of homicide. There was no evidence of bullet wounds.
The victims include the parents and uncle of suspect Michael Cummins. The 25-year-old was caught Saturday, hours after the first bodies were found in one of two rural Sumner County homes.
Cummins was shot and wounded during the capture and was still in the hospital on Tuesday. An eighth victim found wounded but alive at one of the homes was also hospitalized.
A Tennessee man suspected of killing his parents and five others was close to being arrested for probation violations.
Twenty-five-year-old Michael Cummins was caught Saturday, hours after bodies were found in two rural Sumner County homes.
Court records show Cummins had been on probation after serving just 16 months of a 10-year sentence.
He was convicted of attempting to burn down a neighbor’s house and assaulting her when she tried to put out the fire.
Sumner District Attorney Ray Whitley says Cummins’ probation officer had been preparing another arrest warrant for Cummins’ violation of a no-contact order with the neighbor and failure to get a mental health evaluation.
The officer wasn’t able to get a judge to sign the warrant, but Whitley says it’s unlikely Cummins would have been arrested immediately.
Judge sparks outrage for no jail time in rape sentence
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WATERTOWN, N.Y. – New York court officials say a judge who stoked social media outrage for sentencing a former school bus driver to probation in the rape of a 14-year-old is getting “numerous vitriolic” phone calls.
Jefferson County Supreme Court Judge James McClusky last week sentenced 26-year-old Shane Piche (PEE’-she) to 10 years of probation. Piche was required to register as a Level 1 sex offender.
He pleaded guilty to third-degree rape in February.
The sentencing sparked an online wave of condemnation from people arguing it was too lenient. Some critics posted the judge’s phone number online.
A New York courts spokesman says the judge was within the sentencing range for this type of a negotiated plea conviction.
The victim’s mother told WWNY television that she wishes Piche would have received jail time.
This story has been corrected to show the judge’s name is James McClusky, not Jams McCluskey.
Prosecutors: Synagogue attacker had 50 unfired bullets
John T. Earnest appears for his arraignment hearing Tuesday, April 30, 2019, in San Diego. Earnest faces charges of murder and attempted murder in the April 27 assault on the Chabad of Poway synagogue, which killed one woman and injured three people, including the rabbi. (Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP, Pool)
POWAY, Calif. – The man accused of attacking a Southern California synagogue fired only eight to 10 of the roughly 60 bullets he had before his weapon jammed, prosecutors said Tuesday.
John T. Earnest, 19, pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and attempted murder in the shooting that happened Saturday during a Passover service at the Chabad of Poway synagogue. One woman was killed and three people wounded, including the rabbi.
Earnest was arrested shortly after the attack with 50 unfired bullets, a tactical vest and helmet, prosecutors said during his arraignment.
At the hearing, a bespectacled Earnest stood behind a glass panel, wearing blue jail clothes and showing no apparent emotion. He uttered only one word — “yes” — to waive his right to a speedy preliminary hearing.
The judge scheduled a status hearing for May 30 and denied bail, calling Earnest an extreme threat to public safety.
Earnest was an accomplished student, athlete and musician whose embrace of white supremacy and anti-Semitism has dumbfounded his family and others who thought they knew him well.
He made the dean’s list both semesters last year as a nursing student at California State University, San Marcos. In high school, he had stellar grades, swam on the varsity team and basked in the applause of classmates for his piano solos at talent shows.
Earnest apparently became radicalized sometime over the last two years. He is also charged with arson in connection with an attack last month on a mosque in nearby Escondido.
Owen Cruise, 20, saw Earnest every day during senior year at Mt. Carmel High School in San Diego when the two were in calculus and physics together. They were also both in the school’s amateur radio club.
Earnest’s piano performances drew audiences to their feet.
His father, John A. Earnest, is a popular physics teacher at Mt. Carmel, where he has worked for 31 years.
“The way John T. acted is not representative at all of the way he was raised,” Cruise said. “They are an outstanding family. Some of the finest people I’ve ever met.”
The suspect’s parents said their son and five siblings were raised in a family that “rejected hate and taught that love must be the motive for everything we do.”
“To our great shame, he is now part of the history of evil that has been perpetrated on Jewish people for centuries,” the parents said Monday in their first public comments. “Our son’s actions were informed by people we do not know, and ideas we do not hold.”
The parents, who are cooperating with investigators, refused to provide legal representation to their son, and he was represented by a public defender.
Earnest burst into the synagogue on the last day of Passover, a major Jewish holiday that celebrates freedom, and opened fire with an assault-style rifle on the crowd of about 100.
He fled when the rifle jammed, according to authorities and witnesses, avoiding an Army combat veteran and an off-duty Border Patrol agent who pursued him. He called 911 to report the shooting and surrendered a short time later.
Lori Kaye , a founding member of the congregation, was killed. Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein was shot in the hands, while Noya Dahan, 8, and her uncle Almog Peretz suffered shrapnel wounds.
Kaye, 60, was remembered for her kindness Monday at a memorial service at the packed synagogue in Poway, a well-to-do suburb north of San Diego.
An online writing by a person identifying himself as John Earnest and published shortly before the attack spewed hatred toward Jews and praised the perpetrators of attacks on mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people last month and at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue that killed 11 on Oct. 27.
Earnest frequented 8chan, a dark corner of the web where those disaffected by mainstream social media sites often post extremist, racist and violent views.
“I’ve only been lurking here for a year and half, yet what I’ve learned here is priceless. It’s been an honor,” he wrote.
Earnest, who evidently intended to livestream the attack, said he had planned the attack for four weeks.
“If you told me even 6 months ago that I would do this I would have been surprised,” Earnest wrote.
The FBI said it got tips about a social media post threatening violence against Jews about five minutes before the 11:30 a.m. attack.
The tips to an FBI website and hotline included a link to the anonymous post but did not offer specific information about its author or the location of the threat. The bureau said employees immediately tried to determine who wrote it, but the shooting occurred before they could establish his identity.
Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo in Washington, R.J. Rico in Atlanta and Amy Taxin in Poway contributed to this report.
This story has been corrected to show the rabbi’s first name is spelled Yisroel, not Yishoel.
Families weep as trial opens after deadly warehouse fire
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FILE – This combination of June 2017 file booking photos provided by the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office shows Max Harris, left, and Derick Almena, at Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County, Calif. More than two years after 36 people died in the fire, Almena and Harris, the two men who face charges of involuntary manslaughter, will stand trial on charges that they allegedly illegally converted the industrial building into an unlicensed entertainment venue and artist live-work space. (Alameda County Sheriff’s Office via AP, File)
OAKLAND, Calif. – For two hours, victims’ families wept and clutched one another Tuesday while a prosecutor opened a criminal trial by showing photos of and methodically naming each of the 36 partygoers who died in a Northern California warehouse fire.
Alameda County deputy district attorney Casey Bates then recounted for jurors the harrowing tales of two survivors who barely escaped the fast-moving fire and choking smoke while panic and indecision seized most of the victims attending an unpermitted music concert in an illegally converted Oakland warehouse.
The operators of the warehouse, Derick Almena and Max Harris, have been in jail since they were each charged with 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter after the December 2016 inferno.
Bates said prosecutors charged the men because they illegally converted a warehouse zoned only for industrial use into a residence and entertainment venue crammed “floor to ceiling with unconventional, flammable materials.”
Bates said the two failed to provide adequate safety equipment, exits and signage. No one heard the signal fire alarm go off that night, Bates said, giving the partygoers no notice a fire had broken out. The warehouse also lacked sprinklers to slow the fast-moving fire and give them time to escape.
“They died because they had no notice, no time and no exits,” Bates said.
He finished by showing jurors text messages sent from two victims moments before they perished.
“I’m going to die now,” Nicole Siegrest wrote her mother.
“I love you,” Nicholas Walrath wrote his girlfriend. “Fire.”
Lawyers for Almena and Harris were scheduled to deliver their opening statements Tuesday afternoon.
Almena, 49, is charged with illegally converting the industrial building into an unlicensed entertainment venue and artist live-work space, while Harris, 29, collected rent and scheduled concerts.
Prosecutors say the pair filled the warehouse with highly flammable furniture, art pieces and other knickknacks that made it difficult for new visitors to quickly find exits during the fast-moving fire on Dec. 2, 2016.
The cause of the blaze has never been determined, which the men’s attorneys have said will be a central argument of their defense.
They both pleaded no contest to 36 counts of manslaughter last summer, but a judge scuttled the plea deal after victims’ families objected to the sentences as too lenient. Almena agreed to take responsibility in exchange for a nine-year sentence, and Harris agreed to a six-year term.
Judge James Cramer said he rejected the deal because he felt Almena did not show remorse. Prosecutors insisted the plea bargains were a package deal, so Cramer reluctantly rejected Harris’ agreement as well, though the judge said he felt Harris was remorseful.
The men face up to 36 years each if convicted on all counts.
The judge has issued an order that prevents attorneys from discussing the case publicly. Before the order, Almena’s attorney, Tony Serra, said he would argue that the fire could have been started by an arsonist or had other causes unrelated to the men’s management of the property.
Harris’ attorney, Curtis Briggs, said before the order that he planned to argue that others share blame for the fire, including the city of Oakland, its fire department and the warehouse’s landlord.
City codes require commercial buildings to be inspected annually, but the fire department and city officials said they found no records of inspectors checking the building.
Almena and Harris also have been named in lawsuits from victims’ families alleging that Oakland’s fire and building departments failed to inspect the warehouse annually as required. The lawsuits say inspectors would have discovered the illegal conversions.
Alex Katz, a spokesman for the city attorney, declined to comment, citing the litigation.
Warehouse owner Chor Ng, who has never been charged, also faces negligence lawsuits from the families. Bates said the type of lease Almena signed made him completely responsible for the building’s maintenance and safety upkeep.
Ng and her attorney, Stephen Dreher, did not return email and phone messages seeking comment.
The lawsuits also claim Pacific Gas & Electric failed to properly monitor, inspect and repair electrical equipment providing power to the warehouse. PG&E said in a statement that it cooperated with the investigation and that a review of its record found no electrical problems at the warehouse in the 10 years before the fire.
Man suspected of killing 7 had multiple probation violations
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Tennessee man suspected of killing his parents and five others was close to being arrested for probation violations.
Police: No indication driver killed on bridge was targeted
In this undated photo provided by the University Of Northern Iowa Athletic Department on Tuesday, April 30, 2019, is Micalla Alexis Rettinger. Rettinger, 25, was shot and killed about 2:30 a.m. Sunday as she drove over a wooded area along the Cedar River in Waterloo, Iowa. Police say there’s no indication Rettinger was targeted and investigators are seeking the public’s help in determining whether the gunfire came from nearby woods. Rettinger pulled over and died after being hit in the neck. (University Of Northern Iowa via AP)
WATERLOO, Iowa – There’s no indication a woman fatally shot while driving over a highway bridge in northeast Iowa was targeted, police said Tuesday as they sought surveillance or trail camera video that could show whether someone was hunting nearby.
Micalla Alexis Rettinger was shot about 2:30 a.m. Sunday as she drove over a wooded area along the Cedar River in Waterloo. The shot shattered the driver’s side window of her Jeep and hit her neck, then hit one of her two passengers.
The 25-year-old former University of Northern Iowa softball player pulled over along U.S. Highway 218 and died. The injured passenger was taken to a hospital.
“I am devastated,” said head softball coach Ryan Jacobs. “(Rettinger) was a pretty special kid to us.”
Her father, Steven Rettinger, told The Des Moines Register that the world “lost a good-hearted person.” He said she graduated in 2016 with a degree in biology and wanted to become a dentist.
A ground search of the area near where she was shot turned up little to help investigators, said Maj. Joe Leibold with the Waterloo Police Department. But tips from the public are still arriving and being followed, Leibold said.
Police were hoping there might be video that could show if someone was hunting near the river.
Investigators also are trying to learn whether a portion of the bullet that struck Rettinger came from a rifle or handgun. That determination could help investigators figure out the distance from the firearm to the highway bridge where Rettinger was struck, Leibold said.
Cedar Valley Crime Stoppers has offered a $7,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
Lawsuit seeks release of Boy Scout sexual abuse files
Attorney Jeff Anderson, left, holds up a physical fitness badge used by the Boy Scouts of America as Richard Halvorson looks on during a news conference in Newark, N.J., Tuesday, April 30, 2019. Halvorson is alleging sexual abuse in a lawsuit filed against the Boy Scouts of America. The abuse occurred under the guise of trying to earn the fitness badge when Halvorson was an 11-year-old boy scout. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
NEWARK, N.J. – A New Jersey man who says he was abused by a Boy Scouts troop leader in the 1980s is suing to force the organization to release long-secret files containing the names of volunteers who were banned or considered risks for child sexual abuse.
Attorneys for retired police officer Richard Halvorson filed the suit late Monday.
The troop leader was suspended in 1987. The attorneys said he also worked as a schoolteacher and may have worked for another youth scouting organization.
The Boy Scouts have kept the files for decades. About 5,000 have been made public as a result of court action, but others remain confidential.
A Boy Scouts of America spokesman said in an email Tuesday that the organization supports the creation of a national registry of suspected abusers.
Giants draft pick Corey Ballentine posts emotional tribute to college teammate killed in Kansas shooting
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New York Giants’ sixth-round draft pick Corey Ballentine posted an emotional tribute Monday to his former Washburn University football teammate who was killed over the weekend when they were gunned down after leaving a party in Kansas.
“God gives his toughest battles to his strongest soldiers. I love you forever,” Ballentine said in a tribute to Dwane Simmons, a defensive back who was entering his senior year at the university.
“Thank you for being a true friend who uplifted me, corrected me when I was in the wrong, and accepted my flaws. Thank you for being a brother to me. Thank you for letting me experience your life,” he tweeted.
Ballentine and Simmons were out celebrating the 23-year-old cornerback being selected as the 180th overall pick in the 2019 NFL Draft on Saturday. The former teammates left the party about 12:45 a.m. Sunday near the school’s campus in Topeka and were stopped by two to four men asking “if they had a smoke,” Simmons’ father, Navarro Simmons, told FOX4KC.
“Some guys rolled up and asked if they had some smoke or something else for sale,” Simmons said. “Dwane and Corey said ‘no’ and they just drove off and came back around and opened fire. And killed Dwane, and we’re just left in many broken pieces.”
GIANTS DRAFT PICK COREY BALLENTINE CALLED TEAMMATE’S FAMILY ABOUT SHOOTING, WITNESSES URGED TO COME FORWARD
Ballentine was rushed to the hospital and treated for a gunshot wound. Police did not say where Ballentine was struck by the bullet, but reports said the player suffered a gunshot wound to the glute.
Washburn cornerback Corey Ballentine was injured in a shooting in Kansas, university officials said. His college teammate Dwane Simmons was killed. (Getty Images)
As for his future in the NFL, Giants general manager Dave Gettleman told SiriusXM NFL radio Monday that Ballentine — who reportedly has been released from the hospital — was expected to join the team for its minicamp this weekend.
“He’s a really bright kid and he’s a great kid,” Gettleman said. “What happened is tragic and unfortunate. That’s his best friend he was with. We spoke to him on Sunday. He’s coming along fine. He’ll be here Thursday for the minicamp this weekend.”
Topeka police have released few details on the shooting, but said they were questioning more than 20 potential witnesses Monday in hopes of catching the killer. Ballentine was also asked about the incident, but authorities said they intend to conduct a longer interview.
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Dwane Simmons’ family urged anyone with information on the shooting to contact police.
“If you hear anything please speak up. Please go to the authorities. Dwane deserves justice,” Navarro Simmons told FOX4KC on Sunday.
Ballentine was picked by the Giants in the sixth round of the NFL draft Saturday. (AP)
Ballentine was the sixth Washburn University football player to be drafted and the first since 2008, when Cary Williams was selected by the Tennessee Titans, the university said. Ballentine appeared in 46 games and won the 2018 Cliff Harris Award for the small college defensive player of the year.
He was also the first Washburn player to be selected for the 2019 Reese’s Senior Bowl.
The Giants said in an earlier statement they were aware of the “tragic situation” and offered their condolences to the Simmons family.
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The Circle: Season 1 Episode 11 “The Last Rating” Recap/ Review
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Joey: I don't know if this changes things.
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In “The Last Rating,” one more person is eliminated, and we get the final five – who are going to meet face to face.
Directed By Sam Campbell
Written By Lee Gant
Aired (Netflix) 1/15/2020
This content contains pertinent spoilers.
Most Likely To…: Shubham, Joey, Chris, Sammie, Rebecca, Ed
Games on this show are always meant to stir the pot and push people to express what they honestly think. However, all things usually start off soft like “Most Likely To Die In A Zombie Apocalypse.” But, sometimes, you get to learn things like Shubham running for California Governor in 2018, which he did – with no party preference and over 4,000 votes[1]! Also, in the exchange, Ed pokes the bear when voting for “Most likely to hold a grudge,” and with him naming Sammie, we learn she is Italian and Puerto Rican.
The Beginning of Endgame: Ed, Sammie
But, despite Ed’s ability to fit in and joke with the original crew, he still ends up at the bottom and gets eliminated. Thus leading to him having a rather uneventful chat with Sammie. For one, his mom comes in, so what could go down and two, Sammie has a boyfriend, and she flirts to win. It has nothing to do with any interest in these dudes.
Face To Face: Shubham, Seaburn
Seaburn: Wow! This is the moment that I feared.
After Ed’s elimination, it is revealed the winner will be announced in the “Inner Circle.” Meaning everyone will be coming face to face, and with Shubham and Seaburn being the first two in there, it means we’re going to see how Shubham reacts to his sister being a brother-brother.
Plot Synopsis (A Quick Recap)
Ed gets eliminated and decides to go see Sammie.
We get to see Shubham’s father, Seaburn’s girlfriend Sammie, whose name is not Rebecca, and Chris’ mom.
The ratings were done before the final meeting, so Seaburn could win as a catfish.
Review/ Commentary
The Video Packages
Between Shubham’s dad and us seeing, ever so clearly, how he became who he is; Chris’ mom, who, again, is a clear influence on who he is; or finally seeing Rebecca, I mean Sammie, and it being hinted at how strong and beautiful their relationship is, it really complicated having any sort of final pick. For you can see how everyone has a great reason to win, in one way or another.
Shubham Meeting Seaburn
It doesn’t happen this episode, but when I tell you I’m hitting that play button so fast after this is posted! I don’t think I’ve been so excited for a finale for a Netflix show in ages.
We Learn A Good Bit This Episode
Sammie, Seaburn’s girlfriend.
One of the things which remains so strange to me about “The Circle” is we don’t learn a whole lot about anyone. Sammie, probably because of how marketable she is, feels like the only one we got a constant stream of information about. As for everyone else? Who really evolved beyond their initial profile? Did Joey become more than what we were told earlier on? Did Seaburn help us get to know Sammie what so ever? Has Chris done more than give a witty comeback and flirt? How about Shubham? Yes, he has been genuine and lovely, but outside of some trivia facts, can you really say we know these people like we would most on a reality show at this point?
Which is why I’m glad for Shubham’s humblebrag, us learning a tidbit about Sammie, and it feeling like multiple people revealed something about themselves. Here is hoping the finale, during the sit down dinner, people really start to get talking.
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August 9th, 2018 by Brandon Peters
Back when I did Brandon’s Blu-ray Wishlist as a somewhat weekly piece instead of annual, Return of the Living Dead: Part II made my list for its own article. It was a pipe dream then, as it belonged to Warner Bros, who wasn’t licensing out or doing much with schlocky B-horror titles at all. And likely, we wouldn’t have it with the appropriate soundtrack/score in play (Their DVD replaced it with new music, which is available as an “Alternate Audio Track”). I received a lot of flack for “wishing” it, because, well its not that great a movie, but its part of the Return series and for some damn reason, I do return to it every now and then. I dunno, classic bad zombie movies can still be fun (Hello, Nightmare City). Wish granted, haters. And who better to put this out than Scream Factory, rubbing it in your face with a boatload of new features and restoring the original music. Go ahead, try not to pick it up on October 14th. Well, maybe you won’t, but I’m in!
The horror begins again as mysterious barrels bounce off an Army transport as it passes through a new housing development and land near an abandoned cemetery. Mischievous neighborhood boys discover the barrels and open them, unaware of the evil contained within. A deadly green vapor escapes and turns the living into flesh-eating zombies and causes the dead to rise from their graves. As these hideous living dead hunt down the fresh human brains they need, man is pitted against man, and the living against the dead. It is a macabre struggle for living human survival!
Return of the Living Dead was a blast of fresh air and complete revelation for not only zombies, but the horror genre as a whole. Its a special moment, and a seminal film that people should check out. Its a masterful blend of suspense, gore, comedy and culture all in one. Usually referred to as a punk rock horror film, that’s the perfect way to describe this event. A sequel would never be able to recapture that magic, but being a solid follow up wouldn’t be hard to ask. Unfortunately its never understands the complete scope of what worked for the first one, while fumbling around with some elements that did.
Instead of continuing the punk rock and attitude of the original, this one decides to become more suburban and tackling an almost Amblin approach to the movie. Which, okay, its interesting, but it never feels that way. The film seems to just wander around with zombies and have no focus. Luckily, this is a zombie film with some cool effects and plenty of attack scenes that never make it feel like forever to watch it. Overall, the first film is a complete standout, this movie doesn’t really feel different from many also rans. There are also sequences that feel like the American version of scenes from Italian zombie films.
There are some interesting and fun returns here. They’ve kept the comedy element that would be ditched in the next installment. Also, I do enjoy James Karen and Thom Matthews returning as similar characters facing similar fates here that are even acknowledged at one point. The Tar Man returns, but he looks more like a comic book come to life version of himself. Some of the jokes are returned to varying degrees of chuckles and eye rolls. And in one big moment, there is a Michael Jackson zombie reference which…can be amusing and can be the absolute last straw for people and this movie.
While it has many faults, the film does overall work as some trashy ‘popcorn and a beer’ zombie movie. Its still entertaining and much better than some of the lower tier zombie films like The Video Dead. There are some nice effects here which sets it above. Where would have been a better place to go after the first one? Well, the 3rd film will sort of cover the grunge/goth youth culture of the 1990s. Maybe taking the second one to a more hip hop youth culture would have been a good compliment to the first one. However, thinking about it and when it would have been made, we likely would’ve received some now-dated piece of cringeworthy stereotypically racist film make by a clueless old white guy. BUT, as is, this is some entertaining horror junk that I never have a problem revisiting and am happy has come to Blu-ray.
Encoding: MPEG-4 AVC
Layers: BD-50
Clarity/Detail: Return of the Living Dead: Part II debuts on Blu-ray from Scream Factory with a brand new 2K scan of the interpositive. The film has an inherent kind of fuzzy softness to it, that is just the way it was lit and shot, no changing that. But, it looks really terrific and very much 1980s feel to the image. Details are pretty strong, and you get the full on gruesomeness of the gore in full effect, while also grabbing some nifty little mentionables in close up shots. Many have always claimed that Scream Factory is famous for making films look terrific that don’t deserve to, and this is definitely one of them.
Depth: Pretty solid depth on display here with characters having pretty confident movements to go along with a nice pushback between foreground characters/objects and background. No real noticeable instances of distortions in movement seem to be present either.
Black Levels: Blacks are pretty deep and almost natural in appearance. It doesn’t have that light gray look to it that can happen. Some details in darkness, like on clothes, doesn’t really come across to strong all the time. Grain is more apparent in darker scenarios too. No crushing witnessed during this viewing.
Color Reproduction: Colors are pretty solid, with a mostly natural looks, but some of those colors, like a teal sweater and oranges present really do pop out a bit. Red vests, hair and blue denim all come on pretty strong. Any time there are lights, like on a cop car for instance, they have a strong glow to them.
Flesh Tones: Skin tones are natural and consistent from start to finish of the film. Your normal, wrinkles, make-up, stubble and the like are pretty good in close-ups and most medium shots. The faces on the zombies reveal some good textures and other little decrepit details.
Audio Format(s): English 2.0 DTS-HD MA, Alternate Audio Track
Dynamics: Relief, the original score and songs are back in the film for the first time since the VHS release. BUT, just because Scream Factory is one of the most comprehensive distributors in the business, you’re given the DVD’s alternate audio track as well (The one with the dumb voice over at the beginning). The restored track is pretty solid, though it sounds a little dated, with some muffled bits (Not horrible, but they are what they are). The score and music in the film do sound very clear and crisp though and are probably the highlight of this thing. Overall, remember, its Return of the Living Dead: Part II on Blu-ray. This is likely the best it can be (Or ever will be), and its more than solid to deliver.
Low Frequency Extension: N/A
Surround Sound Presentation: N/A
Dialogue Reproduction: Vocals are pretty solid, if not a tad muffled during some scenes. There are also some moments with peaking during some characters yelling. This is probably in the source, but its still apparent.
Return of the Living Dead: Part II – Collector’s Edition comes with a reversible cover featuring the original theatrical poster artwork.
With Actress Suzanne Snyder
With Gary Smart (co-author of The Complete History of the Return of the Living Dead) and filmmaker Christopher Griffiths
With writer/director Ken Wiederhorn and co-star Thor Van Lingen
Back to the Dead: The Effects of “Return of the Living Dead Part II” (HD, 25:01) – A history of making the film and its legacy from the perspective of the special effects/makeup team. This is plenty honest about the lack of confidence they had in the direction of the film, but they put forth their best efforts regardless as they weren’t the ones steering. Includes interviews with Special Make-up Effects creator Kenny Myers and Special Make-up Effects artists Andy Schoneberg and Mike Smithson.
The Laughing Dead (HD, 19:22) – An interview with writer/director Ken Wiederhorn. He begins with his apprehension on doing it because his last film got retitled as Meatballs 2 when the film he made had nothing to do with that “predecessor”. Widerhorn is pretty candid about his experience and even has little anecdotes about stuff like sending Dana Ashbrook to a dermatologist weeks before shooting to help clear up his heavy acne.
Undead Melodies (HD, 12:48) – An interview with composer J. Peter Robinson. He discusses being brought in to replace the original score the creators were left unhappy with and explains how he just did what he did and any comedically timed moments were purely unintentional.
Interview With Actor Troy Fromin (HD, 2:10) – This super brief interview has the actor talking about how he landed his brief role as the pot smoking military truck driver at the beginning of the movie.
They Won’t Stay Dead: A Look at Return Of The Living Dead II (HD, 29:45) – This was a bonus feature on the More Brains! Documentary from a few years ago. Really, this inclusion’s retrospective look at the film could have sufficed as the sole bonus interviews and that’s it. Its terrific and incredibly, BRUTALLY honest (Its made by the Never Sleep Again and Crystal Lake Memories crew). Includes interviews with James Karen, Thom Matthews, Brian Peck, Kenny Myers, Susan Snyder, Michael Kenworthy as well as some members of cast/crew from the first film
Vintage Featurette: Live From The Set (SD, 5:35) – Director Ken Widerhorn talks wanting to make the “Police Academy of horror movies” and there are also interviews with James Karen, Thom Matthews on this little EPK. It also features interviews with Kenny Myers and zombie actors.
Vintage Interviews (SD, 2:36) – Features Ken Wiederhorn, James Karen, Thom Matthews and Kenny Myers. This is just leftoever stuff from the “Live From The Set” Featurette.
Behind The Scenes Footage (SD, 4:14) –
Teaser Trailer (HD, 1:44)
Theatrical Trailer (HD, 1:41)
TV Spots (SD, 2:10)
Still Gallery: Special Effects Makeup (HD, 5:59)
Still Gallery-Posters and Lobby Cards (HD, 1:46)
Return of the Living Dead: Part II is both a bad sequel and a bad movie. But damnit, I’m someone who can enjoy a trashy zombie movie if its…well done? I’ve been wanting it to have a good Blu-ray release for some time now, and its been answered with Scream Factory’s Collector’s Edition. The film looks better than it deserves to and features a solid returned audio track missing since VHS. This thing is stacked with great bonus materials new and old. Quality of the film aside, there is no question Scream Factory has put together the ultimate, definitive release for Return Of The Living Dead: Part II.
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This morning I read an interesting article in The Atlantic “Does Art Help the Economy” (H/T to Sasha Boersma) which talks about how the UK Culture Secretary used economic arguments to prevent cuts to her department’s budget. Their political situation so mirrors our own that I feel that it’s worth sharing and commenting on.
The UK culture department had already survived a 30% cut in spending in 2010 but they were expecting more cuts due to the recession. The 5% cut for this year was seen as a reprieve. Culture Secretary Maria Miller had been making the argument that funding arts should be seen as venture capital that invests in the British brand that could be leveraged to deliver economic growth: “Culture should be seen as the standard bearer for [Britain’s] efforts to engage in cultural diplomacy, to develop soft power, and to compete, as a nation, in both trade and investment.”
Those in the Canadian cultural industries who lobby the federal government for funding, policies and programs have had to learn the economic arguments for culture since the Conservatives became the government. The argument that culture was intrinsically an important part of citizenship resonated with Liberal governments but wasn’t enough with Conservatives. Slowly we all started compiling statistics and analysis (Note the most recent study released July 10, 2013 by the CMPA and Motion Picture Association – Canada on the economic contribution of film and television in Canada) and making economic arguments to show why culture should not be considered an unnecessary frill in recessionary times but an actual economic generator.
From my perspective, it’s been a tough sell and I don’t know whether it’s just that the Conservatives aren’t buying the argument or whether we’re not doing a good enough job in selling it. I find The Atlantic argument interesting because it also points to a division within the cultural community in Britain that I believe we also have here. In the UK there were advocates who fought against the economic argument because “directing our investment in culture for its commercial potential” will result in “worse art” and a “worse commercial outcome”. I’m not sure what Dame Liz Forgan of the Arts Council of England was referring to but the Canadian equivalent would be the really bad movies that were produced as a result of very aggressive tax shelters in the 70s and 80s. I have my name in the credits of a few of those so I know what I’m talking about. But I do not believe that any of our current economic-focused programs such as the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit have produced bad art. Quite the contrary. Unlike in the tax shelter days, no one produces film or television programs just for the financing so the creative has to be good enough to generate other production financing and find an audience.
As we often do in Canada, we need to take a hybrid approach. Gone are the days when we can say that culture needs to be funded only because it presents a social benefit to Canadians. It is important to Canadians that we have access to our own high quality cultural product, but when we only make that argument too often culture is seen as a charitable activity and is the first thing cut when times are tough. Investment in culture is not a frill or a charity. It is an investment in jobs, in the Canadian brand, in international trade and economic growth. However, we can’t lose sight of the Canadian values part of the argument because that is how you avoid “worse art”.
I hope that new Minister of Heritage Shelly Glover reads The Atlantic article. Either way, it’s up to those who lobby in Ottawa to craft those hybrid arguments and keep trying to convince the powers that be that investing in Canadian culture is a smart investment for the country.
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Social Media Musings – Politics
As some of you might have guessed, I was totally biting my tongue (or my virtual tongue) on Twitter during the federal cabinet shuffle today. It occurs to me that it might be useful to explain why I do that so readers can decide how they want to approach moments like that.
As I mention in my social media training workshops, I don’t have a set of rules that I share but principles that I encourage others to consider as they create their own rules. First, there is no such thing as a personal-only Twitter account. Tweets are public and can be found by anyone looking to see what you said. Your audience is not just your followers. It is very easy for your tweets to reflect on you and your job. You should have an idea of the persona that you want to have in social media and you should consider whether that persona could in any way impact your ability to do your job – before you start tweeting or posting.
What that means for me is that even though I have definite personal political perspectives, I keep them off my main twitter account. That’s the decision that I have made. I totally respect those who include partisan tweets in their feed but it is not something that I am comfortable with. I would like to be able to advocate on behalf of whoever engages me with the government of the day. If I, or my clients, have problems with a specific policy then that is fair game but partisan tweets are not. [Now and then one slips out but this is the rule that I TRY to follow.]
So while I tell people that they need to share their personality on Twitter in order to build trust and engagement, there are limits to how much personality you may want to share. Where you draw the line is up to you.
If my social media musings are useful, then I might share a few more over the summer. It’s hot and I don’t want to get into anything terribly wonky in this weather.
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Tommy Jones will make a record-breaking 11th appearance for Team USA at this year’s Weber Cup, with Anthony Simonsen set to make his debut in the Europe vs. America transatlantic tenpin tussle at Arena MK, Milton Keynes this June 15-17, with tickets to go on sale at midday on Wednesday, March 28.
Jones last represented his country at the Weber Cup as captain in 2015 but his side suffered a 17-8 reversal as the South Carolina bowler made his tenth appearance at the tournament, equalling Tim Mack’s record.
Simonsen has been making waves on the PBA Tour and the 21-year-old is regarded as one of the best young stars on the circuit with three titles to his name already and completes the American team alongside Jones, Kyle Troup and captain Chris Barnes.
Jones said: “Representing Red, White and Blue is a big deal to me and I can’t explain how excited I am to be back at the Weber Cup. It’s one of the best events of the year and I have missed it a lot in the last couple of years. There is nothing like the fans and the environment to get your juices going and ready to compete for your country.
“I had no idea that I had bowled more Weber Cups that anyone else – that’s a pretty cool thing to think about. I have been on both sides of winning and losing but every time I was extremely proud to have played in the event.
“Bowling in the UK is amazing. The fans are respectful but love their team – I respect that and look forward to seeing some of the friends I have made over the years but also meeting some new people and checking out the new venue. It will be EPIC.”
Simonsen added: “It’s really exciting to be selected to play the Weber Cup. I’ve watched many of the matches and it looks fun to compete in. I’ve had some good friends compete in the event and they tell me lots of greats things. The one lane setting is neat, it’s an exciting place.
“Team USA has been in a drought and I’m really looking forward to trying to end that with a very talented group of guys. In order to be able to win this we have to win the matches that come down to the 9th and 10th frame. With Europe having the home advantage we have to make sure they don’t ever get too far ahead.”
American captain Barnes is delighted with the team he will bring to Milton Keynes and believes his side have what it takes to win back the Weber Cup in the pressure cooker one-lane setup the tournament is famed for.
“Tommy Jones is the most clutch player of the generation,” said Barnes. “There is nobody I would rather have on my team. Anthony is mature beyond his years. He is a great action player who bowls his best in the big moments.”
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Age: 60,012 Years Old
Race: African
Ethnicity: Anu
Meaning of Name: "Gift" in isiAnu
Birthdate: Rain Season (between march or april), around 58,000 B.C.E
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Health: 100%
Dolai was born in what is now Ethiopia, among a prehistoric people known as the Anu. Her mother, Nani, seemed to have an immaculate conception of her own, leading many tribespeople to believe that she had birthed a sort of curse from their trickster God, or a demon child. Unbeknownst to Dolai, her father was the First One, the first god of the first people to inhabit Central Africa. At the age of fifteen, she began to receive visions of the land locked in ice and the death of the five northern tribes. The people starved as the forests and plains they once hunted in froze over, if they did not perish from the cataclysmic eruption of what would be the Quaternary Ice Age. The message was clear; if they stayed, they would die.
She rallied the five tribes of North Africa, each becoming divided by the desire to leave or stay in the homeland they had always lived in. In the end, some did stay, others built boats to sail into the eastern sea, and Dolai and other tribespeople went north along the Mediterranean, Middle East and Asia Minor . Dolai was married to Daxeri, the son of the Xdu chief, and became pregnant not long after.
Then the ice came.
The earth shook and cracked, the sky tore in half, releasing the heaven’s fury, as the land and sea became locked within ice. Darkness and discord ruled the lands. In what is now Azerbaijan, Dolai gave birth to a stillborn daughter at the age of sixteen. Her husband took another wife, who bore him sons and mocked Dolai’s proclaimed failure.
Dolai cursed the Gods for the darkness, the ice, the death of her people and her child. It was then her father revealed his presence. He was weakened, his followers having died or abandoned him, the belief that kept him alive was fading. The God told her of her purpose; to scribe the story of mankind, to usher it forth and watch nations rise and fall.
Dolai left her tribe at once, bringing people to new lands and honing her magical ability, surviving long enough to witness the ice melt, and the sun return at the dawn of the fertile crescent. From then on, Dolai would live a thousand lives. She would lead people to the four corners of the earth, crossing the ice bridge with ancient Siberians to the Americas.
She would become djati to the first Pharaoh, Nari Mare, and to Hatshepsut. She would become the Akkadian-Sumerian Queen, wife to Sargon of Akkad. Centuries later, an empress at the side of Alexander the Great, become an advisor to Genghis Khan, fight in Shaka Zulu’s armies, guide young Siddhartha Gautama and conquer lands with Ragnar Lodbrok. Dolai would sail with West Africans to Central America, where the Olmec civilization would blossom, she would journey with the wayfinders to the Polynesian islands, and bring the Ainu to Japan.
Dolai has watched the rise and fall of many empires, a mere relic of the past, embarking on a seemingly endless journey. So the nomad continues to wander, protecting the earth from what should be left in the past, and continues to scribe the world’s story.
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The Five Tribes of North Africa inhabited North and Northeast Africa from 80,000 to 60,000 B.C.E. They were the Anu, the Nxual, the Ədul, the Xdu and the Iəku. Dolai hails from the Anu people. They were nomadic people that roamed modern day Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Egypt and Libya. They followed the migration of what they called Ifeə, "horned beast,"or the pelovoris, a prehistoric African buffalo. Unfortunately, this lead to war with sedentary tribes, like the Nxual of Libya, Algeria and Morroco, as well as the Ədul of Libya, Sudan, Chad and Niger.
All tribes had no concept of farming, fishing, building, etc. They were hunter-gatherers, meaning they relied on hunting animals and gathering natural resources for survival.
The Anu are tall, typically mesomorphic people, with skin ranging from copper or bronze brown to obsidian black. They have 4b or 4c hair, rarely anything besides black. They have straight noses with rounded nostrils, full lips and large, slanted or upturned eyes. Their faces are often narrow, with high cheekbones and larger ears. Scarification was common with black skinned tribesmembers, whereas brown skinned often had black stick and poke tattoos. Hair was often locked into dreads, or braided against ones scalp.
They spoke isiAnu, which sounded like a series of clicks, grunts, vowels and harsh, gutteral consanants. The X makes a "high" click sound, the Ç makes a "neutral" click and the Ə makes a "low" click. The Ğ is a throaty grunt.
They used spears, bows and arrows and blades. Their diet consisted of fruits, wild rice, elephant, buffalo, okapi, fish, and things of that nature. Life was greatly affected by the change in climate in North Africa. Every ten to one hundred years, North Africa went from full of life, dominated by tropical plants to a dry desert, and then back again, a transformation that the Anu called Yan'adual.
Religion held great importance to the Anu. They believed that what lie in ones heart and the motive of their actions, would send them to either Çxu'ğl (Above the Sky/the afterlife) or Ğmur (Below the Sea/the underworld). Their teachings relied heavily on duality, the safety of what is known and the fear of what is unknown.
Their two main Gods, were Ta'jat and Xanadu. Ta'jat was the Sun, the ruler of the Sky and creator, he was the God of the sun, life, chiefs, Çxu'ğl, Yan'adual and the Afa, which was the future, the known and divination. Xanadu was the wife of Ta'jat, and the Goddess of the moon, magic, healing, wisdom and the past. Omandu was created by Ta'jat, and cast down to Ğmur, which he made his domain. He is the God of the sea, evil, Ğmur and the Ofa, or the unknown.
The Efe, or shaman, played a vital role in the tribe. The Efe chosen at a young age, to train under the current Efe. They were spiritual leaders, healers and were believed to have the Afa. This allowed them to tell ones future, transfer their consciousness, recieve prophecies and connect to the Gods. They were believed to hold ancient knowledge through the Afa, and regarded as more than human. It was common for an Efe to gauge their ears and bottom lips, pierce their noses with animal bones, shave their heads and tattoo and scar themselves. They also sometimes stretched their necks with rings or even blinded themselves to only be guided by Ta'jat and therefore have more powerful Afa.
Anu tales and myths coming soon
Despite being sixty millennium's old, Dolai does not look her age and appears to be in her early to mid twenties. She has natural black hair of the 4b texture, however she most commonly has dreadlocks. She is also known to wear her natural curls or don twists, box braids and cornrows. She has bronze brown skin that can darken depending on climate, with a cool undertone and sun damage around her nose, cheeks and shoulders. She has full, rosebud lips that reveal fairly white teeth, and one golden left canine tooth on the bottom row. Dolai has a narrow shaped head with a sculpted, sharp bone structure, a defined jawline and high cheekbones. Her arched, full eyebrows arch over almond shaped, dark brown eyes, with long, thick eyelashes. Often dark circles plague the skin beneath her eyes.
Dolai stands at 5'11, with rounded, full hips and shapely
thighs. From centuries of travel, war and hunting, she has a very athletic, strong build. She has a cinched waist, contrasted by broad shoulders and well muscled arms. Her back is arched and toned, her abdomen sculpted and adorned with Ethiopian scarification from the Karo tribe, as curved and straight lines on her stomach. Dolai also has heavily scarred palms from rituals requiring her blood.
The nomad has recieved many tattoos from many regions of the world. Her first tattoo was the sun on the back of her neck. She also has a unalome on her throat, given to her in India during the Maurya Dynasty. An Egyptian scarab is etched into the back of her shoulders, massive Nordic runes adorn her chest. Dolai has ancient Scythian tribal tattoos on her right arm, depicting the animals she hunted, and a Haida ki-da of Xhuuya, or the Raven, dances across her left arm. Below that is a snake, given to her by the prehistoric Anu people. On her right arm, are Pictish ties. On her lower back is a Sak Yant, or Thai magical tattoo, known as Suea Koo. On her right hand, she has henna tattooed on the back. On her thighs, she has Polynesian tribal and traditional Japanese Irezumi Hebi, and finally, a West African sankofa on the back of her left calf.
From a first impression, Dolai is not a ray of sunlight and warmth. She maintains a stoic expression, with a rather apathetic and indifferent attitude. She has been percieved as short tempered, distrustful, and above all, blunt. Although this is mostly true, there is more to Dolai.
She is hesitant to form relationships, and would rather observe than assume, and analyzes character through this. She is private, but perceptive and rather talented at deciphering one's true nature. When she finds someone she genuinely connects with, she values honesty, loyalty, respect and ambition within them.
Dolai's true purpose has made her ambitious, in both positive and negative aspects. Some will tell the tale of a noble and just woman, the others a cruel, ambition driven witch. She is without a doubt cunning and driven, with a wisdom only acquired over milleniums of failure and strife. Dolai is constantly willing to learn, her favorite subjects being science and (of course) history.
Despite her many lifetimes, the human and divine aspects of her being are always at war. She is no more than a tired soul, with feet weary from travel, eyes heavy from centuries of witnessing war and shaking shoulders, exhausted from carrying the weight of the world and a downtrodden heart.
From her tens of thousands of years wandering the Earth, Dolai has learned from many branches of witchcraft. Her divine blood also gives her hereditary magic. She is naturally adept in witchcraft and can sense magical presences, beings, items and places, through a burning sensation in her core. Dolai also hears the call of the ancestors, who give her prophetic dreams and visions, which in the Anu religion, divining is known as the Afa. She is semi immortal and immune to all diseases. Dolai also has enhanced physical strength and senses, her body can withstand massive trauma and extreme conditions. She is also gifted with omnilingualism, which means she can speak, understand and write any language upon hearing it.
From her travels, Dolai has learned many facets of witchcraft. These include Ile Ifa, Druidry, Voodoo, Seiðr, Akkadian, Egyptian, Greek, Aztec, Irish Celtic, Native American, Zulu, Himba, Japanese and Aborigine witchcraft. She is also an expert in Vedic and Alchemical magic, and is a member of the Nine Unknown Men.
Dolai also has magic that was given to her, either by beings or items. Through the Veil of Isis, she can grow anything natural from plants to vines to trees. After drinking from the Pot of Fire, she is able to manipulate and manifest fire. She is also able to manipulate sunlight through the enchanted scarab tattoo on the back of her shoulders.
Finally, Dolai has a pocket dimension, a domain only she has access too. There, she has made her own home and keeps her various pets. She also has a giant Library, where she keeps every petroglyph, cave painting, stone tablet, hieroglyph, scroll and book that she has written about the story of mankind. She has never shown the pocket dimension to anyone, and doesn't spend too much time here. Entering the pocket dimension requires a great deal of her magical energy, and she must remain there for two to three days to fully recharge.
(( not complete ))
Mother // Nani, long deceased
Father // The First One, long forgotten
Siblings // None
- Sons -
Rimush, Shu-Enlil, Ilaba'is-Takal, Manishtushu, Eumenes, Kehinde, Moji, Takalik, Tariq, Alasdair, Ronan, Ros, Mahindra, Ezume, Zurka, Niles, Bjorn, Hvitserk, Sigurd, Ivar, Siyanda
- Daughters -
Enheduanna, Taiye, Sehene, Sanghamitra, Sarnai, Aiko, Dānu, Amahle, Khulekani
- Dolai mastered Alchemy under the teachings of Enki -
- She studied at Nalanda University in India, where she met Siddhartha Guatama for the second time -
- She is one of the Nine Unknown Men and continues to gather knowledge for them to this day -
- Her magic is weakened in the city -
- Dolai has trained in Muay Thai, Ju Jitsu, Kung Fu, Dambe, Capoeira and Krav Maga -
- She owns an enchanted bar called the Isola Rosa, which means "Red Island" in Italian, and it can appear in any city. Mortals will behave as if the bar had always been there, those of magical nature may notice a difference -
- Dolai exceeds in math, philosophy, physics, zoology, botany, anatomy, history and astrology -
- She cannot get enough of spicy food -
- She is definitely an alcoholic, she'll blame it on the fact that beer and wine were the only things to drink back in her day-
- Dolai studied epistemology under Socrates -
- Surprisingly enough, she still remembers her first language, isiAnu. It sounds like a series of clicks, grunts, vowels and harsh, guttural consonants -
- The Book of Thoth -
The Egyptian God, Thoth's, book containing ancient magic. Acquired during Hatshepsut's reign.
- The Falcon Cloak -
A gift from the Norse Goddess, Freyja. It is a cloak that allows one to turn into a falcon.
- Veil of Isis -
Symbolic of the secrets of the natural world, gives Dolai the power to control nature
- Shamshir-e Zommorrodnegar -
An emerald encrusted scimitar from Persian legend, forged by Kāve to slay the demon, Fulad-zereh. Acquired by killing the demon. Once belonged to King Solomon.
- Pot of Fire -
The pot that Grandmother Spider carried fire in, and gave to the Cherokee. Dolai drank from the pot and gained the power to manipulate fire.
- Cauldron of Dagda -
A cauldron that was once guarded by the King of the Tuathe De, Dagda. Once one cooks in it, the food is endless. The cauldron can also raise the dead and heal wounds, and was given to Dolai by Dagda after defeating the Fomorians.
- Tezcatlipoca's Smoking Mirror -
After the fall of the Aztec Empire, the God, Tezcatlipoca, transformed into an obsidian mirror to be kept by Dolai. Through it, one may see the entire cosmos, including the past.
- Sampo -
A mythical, golden Finnish artifact that Dolai went on a journey to find. Grants endless wealth.
- Idol of Shango -
An idol of the Orisha of thunder and lightning, Shango. Was carved by Shango and Dolai's son, Moji.
- Fire Opal Blade -
A beautiful blade made of fire opal, given to her by the Aztec goddess, Itzapaplotl.
- Buddha Bracelet -
A green, yellow, black and white beaded bracelet with a Buddha pendant, made by Dolai and King Ashoka's daughter, Sanghamitra.
- Hagstone -
A stone with naturally occuring holes that allows Dolai to see the fae in the area, found in Scotland.
- Kháos Mávros -
- Dominic -
- Kujo -
- Loki -
Dolai has had many relationships throughout her lifetime, platonic and romantic. As of now, she is single and not too keen on finding a romantic interest. Dolai is demiromantic, meaning it takes a deeper connection for her to develop an interest in someone. However, she is bisexual, and has been in both polyamorous and monogamous relationships.
Leave drama at the door, I tolerate none of it.
I try to keep most of Dolai's story historically accurate. I do tweak some details for her, as she is my character, but if something is wildly inaccurate or offensive, please let me know.
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Do not kill, maim, rape or emotionally scar my character without plotting it with me first.
This is an 18+ zone, there will be mature themes and storylines.
That being said, I do not write purely sexual or violent content. I participate in threads with substance and story behind it.
I'm open to threads and additional plotting. PM or inbox me if you'd like :)
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D o m i n i c December 9, 2019 at 10:25pm
Outskirts of London | 1714 | 2:05 AM
The night had drawn out like any before, clear skies leaning into what would be a sea of stars overhead. With the moon hardly past a crescent, the dark made feint silhouettes of the trees as he would pass them by, one after another. A breeze sifted through blond locks of hair, carrying the brisk night air along with it… it would bother him none. Few things would, once he had finished his business in the woods none too earlier. Each stride brought him purposefully further from where he had started no matter whether he had or not. How long had the coven been there? How long would they be? Dominic knew better than to ask such questions aloud. The man had another century or so before his time would come for asking questions, or any say in the courses taken, for that matter… The region was another stepping stone on their way back to where they had started. He saw it as a cruel, yet alluring distance from the main city itself, London’s lights still leaving a glow in the distance if one were looking for it. For now, keeping his eyes reluctantly off the sight, he was taking the opportunity post-hunt to simply go unsupervised on a rare occasion.
Supervision was a relative term, just as the concept of peace would differ from one to another. If he were to shut his eyes and hone in his senses, the movements of a sibling off in the distance could be traced out to just shy of a mile. With every meter closer, he strived to methodically put two between them. To be left alone for too long, and so far from their ‘home base’ came as a relatively new luxury. Just as the sibling was dawdling on finding their hunt for the night, he wouldn’t let it pass. Empty space and the illusion of quiet had a way of taking some weight off his mind.
Those thoughts had a way of wandering when the opportunity was present… All it took was a pulse to enter his senses before he was walking with a purpose, without truly knowing it. While he was ever vigilant of what might spring out behind him, the subconscious was a precarious thing. Dominic heard the low, repetitive pounding of footsteps and paused in silence, studying his surroundings. He wasn’t far off from the city itself, still further off from the coven than he should have been. When the pulse he had been following was noticed once more, his course changed for it. It was a hurried sound. The closer he would hone in on it, the tempo of the heartbeats upon his radar strengthened. One. Two. Maybe several? They were moving quickly, at the rate of prey trying to outrun its enemy and yet—away from the city..?
Siger Waterfront December 9, 2019 at 1:17pm
All this talk of ancestors and magic made his arms itch - like the inside of his flesh crawled with hundreds of thousands of tiny bugs. An odd sensation, one might assume would be unpleasant. But he didn't mind so much. Glancing down to the sea of faces blurring together up the length of his arm -- dotted with various symbols from a multitude of cultures. Upon a close inspection -- it might seem a little chaotic, but as a whole, it was poetry in motion. A story in the midst of unfolding..
The face of Kali the Destroyer grinned from his torso; her red tongue extended in classic fashion. On her head, she wore a crown -- and sat upon that crown was a lotus flower, stitched into the dip of Siger's throat, curling around either side of his neck. Wrath and purity rolled in one.
I remember a time when ice swallowed the Earth. A time where not a single human was as pale as you. I am no witch, Zi merely looked at her, mildly terrified of the idea of being stuck on this damn world for so long. His lips parted, almost to say that he was surprised she wasn't totally fucked in the head -- but then he merely shook his head.
"Well, which is it? Nomad, or scribe?" He wondered, out loud, before carrying on, giving her very little time to respond - if any at all. "Maybe your ancestors are never wrong, but mine have made some.. morally questionable choices in their time, abusing their power.. ending wars... starting wars. There was a time my ancestors haunted the seas, scourging any ship, man, or beast.. " Because they could. Because it was their birth-right? He could not deny that he felt the sea calling to him even now - cold, and ever so hungry..
The male paused, half-turning his body in Dolai's direction when he heard the tone of her voice drop slightly. He could sense something in her-- but he couldn't decide if it was happiness, or longing. So he watched her, quietly stepping away from the edge of the cliff to lean his shoulder against the bark of a tall wind-swept myrtle tree.
Smirking at her, he'd sweep the unruly, inky strands away from his face, his eyes flashing in half-shadow. "Nor am I surprised much. Unless ya grew up around these parts, you wouldn't have."
Once she was ready - he turned, and continued to pick his way across the land. Eventually, the trees disappeared as they waded into marsh-land, Siger sloshing unceremoniously through the waters. This was a path he'd taken many, many times before -- they were making quick time.
Up a rocky path that led up the foot of a mountain towards a patch of trees that wrapped around it like a verdant, swaying skirt -- he paused. His nostrils flaring as he audibly sniffed the air..
Suddenly, a few rocks came rolling down the side of the mountain, bouncing noisily onto the path. From above, a dark shape fell onto the path - elongating into a familiar shape. The shape of a woman, clad in dark, plastic armor. Her taut arms were bare to display impressive biceps, one bound with a pure silver ring that shone like a knifes edge in the starlight.
She was easily six feet tall - holding a spear just a head shorter than she was; it was made from some type of flexible, bone white wood that she'd twisted around itself and then bound with leather, fastening the long, obsidian looking spear-tip between the wooden branches grasping hands.
Shadows crept along her dark skin; turning every edge of her face fierce -- but they fled when the wind blew back her ebony hair to play in the breeze around the backs of her shoulders, long and straight, the fly away strands seemed like silky ribbons. She tipped her chin with pride, much like Siger had done earlier.
"Here I thought you were being followed. I was.. worried." The corner of her full lips parted, teasing her sharp canine. "But it looks like my concern was misplaced." Years of training had smoothed the woman's once notable accent into a ghost of a memory. It only came out when she was angry -- or drinking, and right now she was doing neither.
Tipping her spear, the warrior examined the deadly blade; as beautiful and fierce as she was herself - her finger trickling along it's sharp, sharp edge. As she did this, her dark eyes flew to Dolai.
"Who's your friend, Zi?"
Siger was relaxed, glancing towards Dolai to see her reaction. "A nomad. A scribe. I haven't quite figured that out yet - her name is Dolai. Dolai, this is Aiali'i - my Second. Say hi, Aiali'i."
The woman shook her head, dark eyes twinkling with amusement. "Hm. This one is smaller than the last one you brought home." She said, cocking her head - her dark, dark eyes again resting on Dolai. "Don't let him convince you it's a good idea to drink the aqua vitae. It's been sitting in the manor for over 400 years and he's been just dying to share it with someone. It'll probably take your souls." With that, she turned away from them both and started up the path ahead of them.
Tales of the Apocalypse December 9, 2019 at 8:14am
Sh-Shamawhatnow? Chimichanga Zorro Dengar? What kind of name was that? Was it Japanese? Arabian? Kháos had never heard the name before, and it even having a name got him suspecting that this chick was some mental roleplayer or something. Was this some weird recruitment procedure? He'd always been fond of the LARPing scene, but he sure wouldn't fit in very well. He'd probably end up killing someone. - if not all involved. Though his train of thought was interrupted when she practically called him a demon. Bitch, WHAT?! Who was this lil' skank walking in calling him a fucking Demon? She was right though, buts still. The nerve! He was gonna whoop her ass out the window. The anger was seen painted across his face. Eyes nearly looked as if though on fire, sparks of bright orange flickering.
"Excuse-" Kháos was about to verbally roast the weird intruder to death, but then she mentioned the apple. fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck, you get the idea. fuck! and on top of that, she called him a Child. a c h i l d. A CHILD!
Kas took a few determined steps towards her and raised a finger as to lecture her, but he couldn't find the words at first. So instead he just stood there like an idiot for a while."What the fuck is going on?!" he finally exclaimed... or asked? It was a question in the form of an exclamation to show his confusion. Or well, it was meant to make him seem like the dominant party in control of the situation, but as usual, he failed miserably. Then his focus seemed to shift to himself. "Malakas housebreaker with a Chimichanga knife, and the mouní ask for IT?!" he growled to himself. "Listen, skýla, I don't care who you think you are. You do not want to get on the wrong side of this fight" He was loosely referring to the Great War of the Divines, but at the same time purposely avoid mentioning it in case she was just some random crazy chick.
The Apple was a dangerous artefact and the fact that his mother had entrusted him with safeguarding it in the first place meant that she really didn't want anyone to find it. Not only was he just a demigod, but he was also not on the Olympian registry for potential new gods. Zeus and the other High Twats on Olympus had no idea of his existence. Not even all-seeing Helios knew of his existence. Or maybe he did, but didn't want to share it. Either way, Kháos was only exposed to one side of the war. The side that frightened him the most. And he knew Eris was vengeful. If anyone stole her apple... No, Kháos didn't even want to think about it. So how would he get this weirdo to get off his back? Maybe War could yeet her out the window. It was high up enough for any human to die. And no one would think Kas did it, the dude was so innocent, he saved spiders, and made little honey meals for the bees. He even fed the rats in the alley. He could blame alcohol, or drugs, or suicide. No one would ever know. Besides, he wouldn't even be responsible. He'd just close his eyes and enjoy the ride.
... or maybe not. "You can't just intrude into here like that, I can call security have they throw you back into the mental institution you came from," he explained aggressively - waving two fingers in her face. "I don't care if your ancestors fucking built the pyramids, the only weapon here is your little stabber, but don't think that gives you any advantage, malakas, I will bury you!" Good old Southern (European) hospitality. He wasn't at all making empty threats and possibly uncalled for insults. No, sir, not him.
Siger Waterfront December 8, 2019 at 12:51pm
The same hand he'd been using to rub at the back of his neck comes around to sweep across his face, wiping away the remnants of the power from his nose and lips if any at all. Then, wiping his hand through a patch of long, sea misted blades of yellowing lyme grass, his lips twisted. The pounding in his head was already fading to a distant memory..
So has his mood increased somewhat with the levity from that sudden intrusion - but he snorts at the woman when she calls him a wolf. Well, he didn't blame her, reminding himself that he hadn't offered his name when she asked for it. He was good at that - not answering direct questions.
"As if you can't tell.." He said, his baritone a mere rumble; his Welsh accent causing his words to dance like the tide to his very own music. "Wait - millenium upon millenium?" He repeated her, oceanic eyes rippling across her form, not so subtle curiosity written across his face. She didn't seem that old, but that seemed to be a common theme among magic-users. A highly advanced age hidden behind supple, young flesh.
His glance slid to her face; resting on her eyes. They gave it away every single time. No matter how young the body, the eyes mirrored the soul -- the wisdom only someone who has lived more than a single life-time could carry. Right away, looking at Dolai's eyes - he believed she was much older than he could even fathom.
"..Well, to be fair, I've never had anyone send me a witch that didn't try to almost immediately kill me." He said, the corner of his mouth quirking ever so slightly. "Hopefully your ancestors aren't wastin' your time, aye?"
Sensing the woman's growing agitation, the corner of his mouth twisted even higher. "Oh?" He allowed the silence to stretch between them, almost as if he still wasn't going to give in -- but then, a chuckle bubbling from his throat, he shook his head and glanced away from her, his eyes seeking the sea. "My name is Siger. And it seems like you've already figured out what I am, at least.. partially. I'm somethin' of a mixed breed. Around here, they might call me Afanc or maybe a Ceffyl Dwr. But the truth of the matter is somewhat more complex... and I don't really feel like combing through it without a drink."
Following the woman's eyes to the shape of the manor in the near distance, he lulled his head in the form of a lazy nod, dark hair falling across his eyes. "You read my mind."
Without anything else to say [andbecausehismuseisrunningoutoftimesohehastocutthisshortI'mverysory] Zi turned and slipped away from the flames, into the shadows lurking around the trees like hungry wolves. Assuming Dolai followed, he would lead in silence, back the same way he'd come, at the closest to lands edge -- where the ground fell away suddenly into the sea on his right.
Ｋ Ｕ Ｊ Ｏ December 8, 2019 at 2:00am
He thought long and hard for a moment, now the thing was....he didn't like getting others especially women involved in his line of work; they became easy targets for rivial groups of people that were trying to put Kujo out of business but at the same time, she seem like she would be the perfect person for this job. Sure it may be a bit far fetched for his men to understand the situation and why he had to bring in a woman to help him but he was a moldest guy, it didn't hurt to ask for help from others every once in a way no? He brought the glass up to his lips and down the last of his drink, the liquid burning his throat as he swallowed it down his throat setting the glass back down, clearing his throat.
"Normally I don't get others involved in my affairs but you maybe the only one that may....be possible to help me out with this; you have a good business going here...staying here isn't the problem for me, but you can become a target for other people that are trying to bring in business as well like I am so....what I'm saying is that....I strongly believe that you can help me expand my turf..."
Sounds simple enough right? Just expand his hunting grounds but that's easier said then done, when you have the damn near population after you as well as having to keep your personal business as a cover up to smuggle in weapons and drugs into the city without the police having to sniff into his business. Not everyone could keep their mouths shut, money was a deal breaker for most people to get info on people but not with Kujo, even if someone were to get paid, they would refuse to talk due to the fact that Kujo will always eventually find out he ratted him out and sure enough he'll take them out himself rather then sending someone to take them out for him.
"What do you say? Sounds interesting..?"
Siger Waterfront December 7, 2019 at 11:10am
The flicker of animated fire cast jagged, living shadows across Siger's taut face while he remain tense, shoulders and body low as though he was preparing to pounce, but he had promised the woman freedom from harm. He relaxed slightly, straightening up, figuring that being powerful -Dolai clearly was - didn't mean that the woman deserved his unrelenting agression. But he was no fool, he knew better than to trust someone he'd only just met. Perhaps, he told himself, there's no need to be so forward about it..
Siger's expression gave very little away; glacial cool and aloof. Large, colorless eyes that swallowed up the light and spit it back with a pale, eerie glow pinned on Dolai with hyper-awareness.
Slowly, the sea-hued wolf sank to the ground, crossing his long legs before him, almost as if to silently concede the woman's point -- they didn't know eachother, and he was inerested in what she had to show him. Feeling almost drawn in, unable to move away from the fire, a moth caught in a beautiful trap, he doesn't do a damn thing.
It's smart of Dolai not to ask for his permission -- because he would have said fuck no. He might even have gotten angry with her for suggesting it, but this.. worked. His rigid, ink splashed muscles immediately begin to loosen as the powder fills his lungs, as everything around him...
Blinking, he glanced around. Immediately, he looked for Dolai-- but found himself alone. Okay..
As the sound of thunder came rolling across the ground towards him, he hopped to his feet with a bestial snarl -- but the sound was odd in his head, far away yet so close at the same time.. but he didn't have time to focus on the strange auditory sensations he was groing through -- too busy watching the moon wrestle with the sun in the sky, stumbling back as wolves -- came screaming from the trees, their songs -- so familiar to him -- wretched with pain and fear.
He tried to follow them, to stretch out his hand and yell for them to stop -- the cliff -- the rocks... but it was too late.
He was alone. Again. The soles of his feet soaked with warm blood. The crown shining over his head.. but he didn't give a fuck about that after having seen so many wolves plunge to their own death-- and for what?
And then,
it was over.
His left eye burned, vision swimming, but he quickly pushed the palm of his hand against it and stood, his entire body trembling with a furious, clicking growl. Not so much the sound a wolf would make, but something ancient, and hungry from the very depths of the sea..
Rather than respond to her more than reasonable inquiries, Zi bares his teeth to the night air, his fury palpable. "Y-you saw this? Why!? What the fuck.. does it.." He growled, took a deep breath, forcing his rage back into it's feeble cage beneath his heart, and flopped back to the earth, one hand slamming down palm-first behind him, left leg extended past the fire, right curled at the knee so he could drape his free arm across it.
"Does it always feel like someone is cracking open your skull with an ice pick?" Leaning forward slightly, his hand came off the ground to rub at the back of his neck.
He tipped his head slightly, his ears pricking at the females.. odd accent. Almost as if her tongue couldn't decide on a song to sing -- then, his eyes closing halfway, he scented the air - picking through the stench of smoke, wood, and dew misted grass. Through the fresh, salty air that tasted slightly of rain, to Dolai.
Lips parted to form a question, but then he decided to swallow it, glance darting in the direction of the fallen idol when the woman knelt to right it. His nostrils flared. "Oh?" His brow quirked, the distrust clear as the moon in the sky and the glow of the fire on his face, dancing off the reflective lens of his eyes.
The moment Dolai began to speak those words -- he felt something in his lower spine, an ice cold spike that shot into the base of his skull, down into the soles of his feet. He was up, ready to leap across the flames and end the womans life with a flick of his claws. But..
He doesn't move. Something inside roaring; Wait.
Zi is ready to be burned when the fire-born serpent wraps around him, across his shoulders and down the length of his naked arm. But.. to his surprise, he doesn't even feel the kiss of heat. Still, his muscles are rigid - his feet arched up from the earth so all his weight was resting on his toes, still ready to pounce.
Thunder ripples from the depth of his throat when the woman starts to shine like a star -- Zi had never met a magic user that hasn't tried to use it to kill him, so this.. didn't make him trust her anymore than he had a few moments before. All he knew was that she has apparently seen him in a dream -- and that she was some kind of sorceress.
"You haven't given much reason to trust you at all, but.. you have my attention, for now. And my promise that as long as you don't mean me or my pack any harm, neither will you be harmed." Siger slid the length of his tattoed fingers through his straight, ink black hair.
The male’s eyes narrowed with a touch of suspicion when the woman bowed to him -- straight up fuckin’ bowed.
Now, Siger was used to respect. A dip of the head here or there, averting of the eyes. A throat bared in submission, even… but this stranger was the first one ever in his short twenty one years ever to do that.
Depths take me, another weird bitch. The thought flickered across the front of his mind, causing the corner of his mouth to twist. Well, at least I didn’t have to save this one from the sea..
Zi was knelt before the fire when the stranger -- Dolai -- straightened from her bow, elbows resting across his thighs. He’d moved with the silence of a shadow, barely a whisper of the air around him, eyes locked on the woman across the fire-pit.
I've dreamt of this place. I've dreamt of wolves. Of a king. Of bloodshed.. The wind shrieked over the tops of the trees, blowing the flames across the ground; roaring. Then, suddenly, it was silent.. leaving only the sound of the ocean kissing the earth not so far away..
Crack! The fire popped; sparks and embers shooting around them, some bouncing off his shoulders and falling harmlessly to the grass.
His eyes were electric with concentration and tense with wolven dominance, unblinking. The males pupils were enormous -- swallowing out the colors of his eyes.
“If it does?” If she hasn’t already, Dolai would soon learn that Siger was a wolf of few words.
Tales of the Apocalypse December 4, 2019 at 8:10pm
He was fairly certain that Phobos had already sensed his worry, and didn't understand why he hadn't appeared yet. Phobos usually popped up as soon as Kháos was distraught. He frowned as he again brought up his phone to scroll through some social media bullshit. After about thirty minutes he decided it was enough of that, he had studies to get to. This time, he was to read about some French artist he gave absolutely zero shits about - Henri Matisse. He didn't like his work at all. Looked like something a child, or impaired, would do. But, it was important for him to learn because to understand contemporary art, one must learn about the people who inspired it, or some bullshit like that. He hadn't really paid attention to the reasoning. Not that he was a bad student. Sure, he was a rebel and anarchistic at times, but he always did well. He hated the research but he wanted good grades. Good grades could prove to him that he could function in human society despite... well, everything. He reached for his backpack but couldn't find it. Oh right, He'd thrown it just past the door - like always. Somehow he could never remember that he never brought the backpack to his desk. He arose and started to turn around when something was heard from the wardrobe, and just as his heart skipped a beat - some weird-ass girl with a fucking scimitar?! jumped out.
Even since Kháos was little, he'd felt War's presence. Almost like a parent that lived inside him - always there to protect him. His father had left him at a monastery when he'd realised who his mother truly was. He thought he'd helped spawn a demon - not that he was entirely wrong. He had been left alone with strangers worshipping an absent, yet vengeful, god. Dissident worshippers fearing all things not graced by God's light. Such as the child of a heathen god. They had called it discipline, therapy, help, comfort, parenting... Most people would have called it torture, murder attempt, abuse. He still bore scars on his back from the many lashes, slashes, strikes. Battered and broken, afraid of himself more than his tormentors. They say that God strikes down those who misuse his name. Many doubt that. But one night, War had enough. 37 people were torn to shreds, and 68 others ended up hospitalised. And ever since, War has held a firmer grip on Kas. Never letting anyone harm him ever again.
As if a videogame jumpscare, War emerged for but a split second. Less than the blink of an eye it was as if though Kháos teleported right in front of the intruder - his body changed. The skin was a sickly pale green, with dark shadowy markings, and strange jewellery adorning an otherwise naked form. Sculpted muscles covered in a dark aura, topped off with two searing orange orbs in a face covered in ancient Greek symbols - his dark hair flowing as if in water. It was a truly horrifying sight. But it did not last long. For as quickly as it had appeared, it so returned Kas to where he'd stood near his desk. And oddly enough it was almost as if though Kháos hadn't even noticed, because his focus was still on the girl - and his gaze gave off fear mixed with anger centred towards no one else but her. The appearance of War had been so quick that to a normal mind, it could've been nothing but a vision, an illusion. But it lasted long enough to burn a terrifying image into their mind. An image that when thought of, would stir aggressive thoughts. One of War's many powers. Anyone who looked upon him in any way would forever be cursed with a warrior's rage.
"Put that toy away, we don't wanna hurt anyone" Kháos spoke with a heavy Greek accent, rolling the R in that familiar Indo-European Hellenic manner. His eyes shifted between hers, and the sword. It was clear by the way he now stood that he was not unfamiliar with fighting. Trained in unarmed, and armed, combat by Eris, Enyalios, and Phobos. It was also apparent that he didn't actually want to fight... despite the threatening appearance of the terrifying demon - or illusion, who would know?
But what was certain, was that there were more than two pairs of eyes in the room...
He nodded his head as a gesture of thank you for the drink, wrapping his fingers around the glass as he brought it to his lips and took a sip before setting the glass back down, the burning sensation in his throat sitting there for a moment before it subsided for now until he decided to take another swing of his drink. The whole reason why he came here in the first place was to get a feel of the place and of the owner themselves to see how to approach the situation at hand, most times it didn't go so smoothly like this was going, any other time most owners would have told Kujo to get out or threaten to call the police on him if he didn't leave and sure enough he would have make a point and show them who was boss around here but yet he didn't have to do it with her...at least now yet anyway for that matter. "I guess that's all we men care about, having power and the world under our control I guess....I just want power of course." He shrugged his shoulders as he leaned on the counter once again, a small smirk formed on his lips as he looked at the woman.
"Dolai....never heard of a name like that before....nice to meet you Dolai, my names Kujo but I'm known as The Black Dog around the area..."
It was more of a nickname rather then a suppose title that was given to him at the beginning of starting his business, though no one ever understood why he was given such a name except for only a select few people who knew the true nature of his being and knew of his origins as to where he came from in his past life to make him what he is in his new life that was given to him. The clock on the wall was ticking, thanks to his enhanced hearing and all, it sounded to him that it was quite loud but it wasn't, just a noise to subsitute the silence that had taken over the bar when he came in. "So let's cut to the chase....normally when new businesses pop up around here I make my presence known to them. I give the owner an option to other follow the rules or they can take their business and go elsewhere, the choice is yours but it seems that I may not have to do that with you....in fact....you may be....useful to me really.."
Just what exactly was Kujo scheming up this time? Nothing bad....or maybe it was something that even he alone couldn't do which he wasn't afraid to admit when he would need help with something at times, its apart of 'being human' right? But asking a complete stranger for help? A bit farfetched don't you think?
Jason Todd
Ɗaηiel Diaᴢ
Siger Waterfront
Dr. Christian Waterfront
ѕcarleтт ғoѕтer
The C r o w
Sιɴтαιl
Maere
D o m i n i c
Noita Doe
Tales of the Apocalypse
Daniel Mcknight
Ｋ Ｕ Ｊ Ｏ
Mai Ortega
Nǝssᴉǝ
Malphas Faery
Dolai left a comment for Jeverich
"Dolai stepped back as the colossal dragon moved away from the body of the Piasa. She looked down at it, before crouching by its head. How had it come back to life? The Piasa had been killed by an Illini chief hundreds of years ago, so why was it her…"
"He fought the Piasa as if he had done this before. The more she saw, the more questions arose in her mind. However, now was not the time. She watched as the monster barreled through the trees and with Shamshir-e Zomorrodnegar in hand, Dolai raced to…"
"Dolai arose, eyes fixed on the scene before her. The corpses tore at the Piasa's flesh, eating it, as the Piasa devoured some of them itself. It let out a roar as it had either crushed or eaten the majority of the undead, the rest starting to retrea…"
"Amber met gold as their gaze met, his eyes burning with hellfire, her mind still reeling to process what was happening. She rolled out from under him, arising, baring the sword that protected them from flying, sharp debris. The roar shook every bone…"
"He reacted as expected, a growl rumbling in his throat, but his eyes raised to the sky. The ground shook, the sky darkened, a blood curdling, spine tingling shriek shattering the windows of Jev's home. Dolai covered her ears, gritting her teeth, the…"
"He was clearly growing more irritated by the second, but did Dolai care? No. In fact, she almost found it amusing, to be the bane of his morning without even trying. As he made it a point to avoid her gaze, she stared straight ahead at him. Her heav…"
"He had a lot to learn, granted he didn't know her, but with feet planted against the doorstep and bronze brown arms crossed across her chest, it was clear that Dolai wasn't leaving any time soon. She had a problem with boundaries, but no one would t…"
Dolai updated their profile photo
"The disgusted look. Oh, what sort of bullshit had she gotten herself into. She couldn't quite decipher the reason why he behaved as he did. Leaning against the doorway was a clear indication that she was not allowed in, and he did not give his name…"
Dolai left a comment for Noita Doe
"Sun poured into the temple-like abode, casting the shadows of the vine covered pillars, shining through semi transparent curtains, the light illuminating all of Olympus, and Dolai's bronze brown skin. She blinked open serpentine, amber eyes, only to…"
Loreley and Dolai are now friends
"Dolai crossed her arms across her chest, waiting for an answer. She didn't think that man would be too happy to see her, nor a severed Kishi head on his property. But oh well. Her ears pricked as she hears footsteps from inside the house, her gaze l…"
"She pushed past branches that reached out to snag at her braided dreads, plucking out leaves and debris from her air as she entered the clearing. Dolai felt a slight twinge of surprise as her tracking spell had lead her to a fairly small, modest but…"
""Then let it run."
His words echoed in heavily pierced ears. Her lips parted, upturned eyes narrowed, a look that clearly said "are you fucking kidding me?" She didn't expect him to care, the more and more she observed him, she started to think that…"
Dolai left a comment for Dolai
"All replies sent"
"Besides the burning sensation now raging in her core, the heat emitting from his form could be felt from the short distance between them. Dolai's full lips parted, sculpted brows knitting with partial confusion, as well as curiosity. He was no fire…"
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| about = British heavy tank '''{{PAGENAME}}'''
| link = Churchill (Family)
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[[File:GarageImage_Churchill Mk III.jpg|420px|thumb|left]]
The '''{{Specs|name}}''' (or just '''{{Specs|pseudonym}}''') is a Rank {{Specs|rank}} British heavy tank {{Battle-rating}}. It was introduced in [[Update 1.55 "Royal Armour"]] along with the rest of the initial British Ground Forces Tree. Compared to its [[Churchill Mk I|predecessor]], the Mk.III has a more capable 6-pounder gun as its arsenal with its thick front armour.
The Churchill III is one of the best, if not the best, tanks at Rank III. The tank has excellent frontal armour. You can bounce several shots with this tank. Tanks such as the [[Pz.III J1|Panzer III]], [[T-34 (1941)|T-34]], [[M4|M4 Sherman]], and even the dreaded [[Pz.IV F2|Panzer IV F2]] if angled. Very few tanks can deal with you effectively from the front, such as the [[M10 GMC|M10]] or [[Achilles|Achilles]]. The gun on it is also excellent, as it has very high penetration and also very good damage for such a small caliber. A good trait of British guns is it's high rate of fire, allowing you to destroy several tanks quickly. It rarely sees dangerous tanks like the [[SU-85]] or [[Jagdpanzer IV]]'s.
However, the Churchill III has its limits. The tank is not very fast and does turn quite slowly. From the sides, the engine is easily damaged. The tank is also quite large and long and is a common target for bombers. Also, the sloped front part of the front armour is also weak, you need to angle to be effective with it. It also has a machine gun weak spot on front. The reverse is not as great. Some people do find their way around the armour and decide to shoot your turret or your turret ring. The lower glacis can sometimes be penetrated, but angle your tank to avoid that. Also, along with the [[3 inch Gun Carrier]], it has thin roof armour and can easily be rocketed.
=== Survivability and armour ===
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'''Armour type:'''
* Rolled homogeneous armour (Hull, Turret)
* Cast homogeneous armour (Driver view port, Machine gun area, Gun mantlet)
! Armour !! Front !! Sides !! Rear !! Roof
| Hull || 89 mm ''Front plate'' <br> 89 + 89 mm ''Front plate (MG Port)'' <br> 38 mm (63°) ''Front glacis'' <br> 76.2 mm (19°) ''Lower glacis'' || 63.5 mm ''Overall side armour'' <br> 76.2 mm ''Side hatch'' <br> 38.1 mm ''Side edge'' || 50.8 mm <br> 25.4 mm (60-69°) ''Bottom'' || 19.05 mm ''Front'' <br> 15.87 mm ''Rear''
| Turret || 89 mm (0-49°) ''Turret front'' <br> 89 mm (0-30°) ''Gun mantlet'' <br> 19.05 mm (77°) ''Roof area'' || 76.2 mm (0-47°) || 76.2 + 7 mm || 19.05 mm
'''Notes:'''
* Suspension wheels and chassis construction are 20 mm thick while tracks are 30 mm thick.
=== Mobility ===
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!colspan="3" | Mobility characteristic
! Weight (tons)
!colspan="1" | Add-on Armour<br>weight (tons)
!colspan="1" | Max speed (km/h)
|rowspan="2" | 39.0 || colspan="1" rowspan="2" | N/A || colspan="1" | 26.4 (AB)
|24.9 (RB/SB)
!colspan="3" | Engine power (horsepower)
!colspan="1" | Mode
!Stock
!Upgraded
|''Arcade''
|''Realistic/Simulator''
!colspan="3" | Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
|11.59
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{{main|Ordnance QF 6-pounder Mk.V (57 mm)}}
! colspan="6" | [[Ordnance QF 6-pounder Mk.V (57 mm)|57 mm OQF 6-pounder Mk.V]]
! rowspan="1" | Vertical <br> guidance
! rowspan="1" | Horizontal <br> guidance
! rowspan="1" | Stabilizer
| colspan="3" | 85 || -12°/+20° || ±180° || Vertical
! colspan="6" | Turret rotation speed (°/s)
! style="width:4em" |Mode
! style="width:4em" |Stock
! style="width:4em" |Upgraded
! style="width:4em" |Prior + Full crew
! style="width:4em" |Prior + Expert qualif.
! style="width:4em" |Prior + Ace qualif.
| ''Arcade'' || 14.28 || 19.80 || 24.0 || 26.60 || 28.20
| ''Realistic'' || 14.28 || 16.80 || 20.4 || 22.60 || 24.00
! colspan="1" style="width:4em" |Prior + Full crew
! colspan="1" style="width:4em" |Prior + Expert qualif.
| 5.2 || _._ || _._ || _._
===== Ammunition =====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
! colspan="8" | Penetration statistics
! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="text" | Ammunition
! rowspan="2" class="unsortable" | Type of <br /> warhead
! colspan="6" | '''Penetration''' '''''in mm''''' '''@ 90°'''
! 10m
! 100m
! 1000m
| Shot Mk.8 || APC || 115 || 111 || 94 || 76 || 62 || 50
| Shell Mk.10 || HE || 9 || 9 || 9 || 9 || 9 || 9
| Shot Mk.5 HV || AP || 113 || 109 || 92 || 74 || 60 || 48
| Shot Mk.9 || APCBC || 131 || 127 || 110 || 91 || 75 || 63
! colspan="11" | Shell details
! rowspan="2" |Velocity <br /> in m/s
! rowspan="2" |Projectile<br />Mass in kg
! rowspan="2" | ''Fuse delay''
''in m:''
! rowspan="2" | ''Fuse sensitivity''
''in mm:''
! rowspan="2" | ''Explosive Mass in g<br /> (TNT equivalent):''
! rowspan="2" | ''Normalization At 30° <br> from horizontal:''
! colspan="3" | ''Ricochet:''
! 0%
! 50%
! 100%
| Shot Mk.8 || APC || 883 || 2.9 || N/A || N/A || N/A || +4° || 48° || 63° || 71°
| Shell Mk.10 || HE || 655 || 2.7 || 0.1 || 0.1 || 590 || +0° || 79° || 80° || 81°
| Shot Mk.5 HV || AP || 883 || 2.8 || N/A || N/A || N/A || -1° || 47° || 60° || 65°
| Shot Mk.9 || APCBC || 847 || 3.2 || N/A || N/A || N/A || +4° || 48° || 63° || 71°
=== Additional armament ===
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[[File:Ammoracks_Churchill_Mk_III.png|right|thumbnail|x250px|[[Ammo racks|Ammo rack]] of the Churchill Mk.III]]
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! class="wikitable unsortable" |Full<br /> ammo
! class="wikitable unsortable" |1st<br /> rack empty
! class="wikitable unsortable" |2nd<br /> rack empty
! class="wikitable unsortable" |3rd<br /> rack empty
! class="wikitable unsortable" |4th<br /> rack empty
! class="wikitable unsortable" width="10%" |Recommendations
! class="wikitable unsortable" |Visual<br /> discrepancy
|| '''85''' || 68 ''(+17)'' || 51 ''(+34)'' || 34 ''(+51)'' || 17 ''(+68)'' || 1 ''(+84)'' || style="text-align:center" | Yes
Turret empty: 68 ''(+17)''
=====Optics=====
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{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" width="50%"
! Which ones
! Default magnification
! Maximum magnification
! Main Gun optics
| x1.85 || x3.5 <!--Sometimes the actual value may not be known and here it should be referenced if the optic values are an estimate such as with an "X8.3 (estimated)" notation or something else that way the user will then be able to look to the comparable optics section and see a referenced optic which will have actual in-game data to back up the claim.-->
! Comparable optics
| colspan="2;" style="text-align:center;" | [[Pz.IV G]]
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{{main|BESA (7.92 mm)}}
! colspan="7" | [[BESA (7.92 mm)|7.92 mm BESA]]
! colspan="7" | ''Coaxial mount''
! colspan="4" rowspan="1" style="width:5em" |Capacity (Belt capacity)
! rowspan="1" | Fire rate <br> (shots/minute)
| colspan="4" | 9,350 (225) || 600 || N/A || N/A
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This tank can be effectively be played in a brawling style, going into the front lines. This tank, due to it's excellent armour and gun, can even hold off an entire enemy flank with minimal backup. In city maps, be careful not to expose your side armour as it is quite weak and your engine might get damaged. With it's good gun, it can be as a support tank as well, in the second line destroying tanks. Angle your armour to maximize it's effectiveness. When frontally angled, even the sides will be tough to penetrate. Many tanks will struggle penetrating you. There are some tanks that you don't even need to worry at all penetrating you from the front, such as the Panzer III. Angling your armour will make you even tough against the high penetration Panzer IV F2. However, be aware of higher penetration tanks. The M10 is a worthy mention as most of the time it might be able to penetrate your armour. The far deadlier Achilles can penetrate your front with little effort. Thus, it is advised to take cover, angle, or destroy them first. Shermans are not much threat since they won't really penetrate your armour, but sometimes they do. They are easy to deal with as your 57 mm gun can punch straight through. Your 57 oddly does a lot of damage for a 57 mm gun. It can one shot Panzer III's, and sometimes Shermans if you aim correctly. Overall, the Churchill III is a very powerful Rank III vehicle that is capable of holding off an entire flank, while destroying tanks easily in quick succession.
''Summarize and briefly evaluate the vehicle in terms of its characteristics and combat effectiveness. Mark its pros and cons in a bulleted list. Do not use more than 6 points for each of the characteristics. Avoid using categorical definitions such as "bad", "good" and the like - they have a substitution in the form of softer "inadequate", "effective".''
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* Excellent frontal armour.
* Almost immune to small caliber guns.
* Well armoured sides.
* Good Mantlet.
* Has access to the 57 mm QF 6-pounder Mk.V cannon. It differs from the Mk. III variant found on the Crusader Mk.III, Valentine Mk.IX and Cromwell I in that it has higher penetration (127mm max).
* Tracks are so big, that they will sometimes absorb shots from the side
* It's size eliminates any recoil from the gun, making it easy to fire a second shot without losing any accuracy.
* Ability to pivot steer.
* Large suspension sides have side hits more likely to break tracks than penetrate the hull.
* Incredibly hard to dislodge or destroy when properly angled.
* Works well as the spearhead of an assault when capturing a point, absorbing damage.
* Good acceleration.
* Will lose a lot of speed when making a sharp turn in motion.
* Has difficulties engaging another heavy tanks.
* Up-gunned Panzer IVs are a major threat.
* Poor mobility when compared to other heavy tanks from other nations.
* Terrible reverse speed.
* Boxy armour, although still thick.
* Has trouble scaling obstacles.
* Very slow, will take a lot of time just to reach the combat zone from spawn points.
* Frontal 50 mm weakspot (Machine gun port).
* Roof armour is somehow thin.
* Ammo racks just below the turret, smart player will shoot you there and will be lethal most of the time.
* Priority target by planes due to size and bad reverse speed.
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===Development===
The General Staff specification ''A20'' was implemented before World War II and was meant to replace the [[Matilda Mk II|Matilda II]] and [[Valentine Mk XI|Valentine]] infantry tanks. The specification was based around the British infantry tank doctrine and with the expectation that the coming war would be based off the World War I trench warfare, thus the tank was needed to travel across unfavorable terrain and able to destroy enemy defenses and infantry obstacles. As speed and heavy firepower was not taken with priority, the vehicle was to have two 2-pounder gun on side sponson mounts with a coaxial machine gun, with another machine gun and smoke dischargers on the front hull, armour was about 60 mm on the turret. Four prototypes were made by June 1940 by Harland and Wolff. The front hull would see an upgrade in armament with a 3-inch howitzer during the prototype stages, the 43 ton tank had a 300 hp Meadows engine from the Covenanter tank and was made the tank underpowered. The A20 project was cancelled with the Battle of France, which saw the emergency evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk that left a majority of their heavy equipment behind.
The Battle of France proved that the coming World War II was not going to be a stagnant battlefield like the trench warfare from World War I. The entire concept had to be redesigned and was done so by Henry Merrit, the director of Tank Design at Woolwich Arsenal. His new concept, the '''A22''' or '''Infantry Tank Mark IV Churchill''', was given to Vauxhall Motors in June 1940. War Office requested that the A22 be ready to enter production within the year due to growing pressure of a German invasion of Britain. The designs were ready in July 1940 and the first prototypes were made by December of the same year, production soon followed in June 1941. The rushed development was acknowledged in the company to being the cause of many faults and defects in the tank, but the demand by the government was so great that it must be carried out, with the expectation that the issues will be fixed during production. The Churchill tank suffered from an under-powered engine, weak armament, and mechanical issues. The weak armament from a 2-pounder was fixed with the arming of a 6-pounder on the Churchill, but the other issues caused poor performance of the Churchill in the battlefield. In fact, the Churchill production was almost cancelled in favor of the [[Cromwell V|Cromwell]] due to its issues, but its usage in the Second Battle of El Alamein proved its value and kept it in service.
The Churchill would carry on the rest of the war as one of the most versatile tank design in British service, serving in many specialist roles other than its tank role. Altogether, a total of 7,568 Churchill units produced from 1941 to 1945, with 5,968 as tanks.
===Variants===
The Churchill, used in a multitude of roles, is made into many different variants. 12 different kinds of tank variants were produced for combat roles, with 11 more variants in specialized roles ranging from armoured personnel carrier, a bridge-layer, mine clearer, a [[3 inch Gun Carrier]], flamethrower tank, and an armoured recovery vehicle.
===Combat Usage===
The Churchill tank was first used in the Dieppe Raid in August 1942. While it was really a test on how an opposed landing would work, the 60 Churchill tanks to support the Canadian units suffered from mechanical issues, and those that did work are not able to penetrate past the sea wall due to impassable defenses. None of the Churchill tanks that landed returned from the beaches and with a 70% casualty rate, the raid's attempt to establish a beachhead was a failure.
The next use of the Churchill was in North Africa during the Second Battle of El Alamein. At this point, the Churchills have been upgraded to the '''Mk.III''' variants with 6-pounders as their main armament. The detachment, code named "King Force", help supported the 7th Motor Brigade in their attack. The Churchills were fired upon by many German anti-tank weapons, but none were taken out with only one receiving note worthy damage. "King Force", as a test bed for the feasibility of Churchills operating in the desert environment, was disbanded with the establishment of the 25th Army Tank Brigade with the Churchills to see action in February 1943 in Tunisia. In the German offensive Operation Ochsenkpf, two Churchill Mk.III from the 51st Royal Tank Regiment came across an entire German transport column that they ambushed. The end result was a loss of twelve artillery pieces, 25 wheeled vehicles, two [[Pz.III J|Panzer III]]s and 200 casualties on the German side with no losses for the British. The Churchill also played a key role in the Battle of Longstop Hill, where Churchill tanks in the 48th Royal Tank Regiment faced off with Germany's newest heavy tank [[Tiger H1|Tiger I]]. Though suffering losses, a lucky 6-pounder shot from the Churchill ended up jamming the Tiger's turret and turret ring that injured the crew, forcing them to abandon the tank. The Tiger tank was captured by the British for intelligence purpose on Germany's armoured forces. The Tiger Tank is named Tiger 131.
After the North African campaign, the Churchill began to see widespread usage in the British army as a support unit for the infantry. The Churchill saw much more operation hours than any other British tank in service. It was at this point that the Churchill Mk.III began a conversion into the 75 mm guns that were used on the American [[M4|M4 Sherman]] tanks. These conversions, known as ''NA75'', proved to be more efficient than the Shermans and were used more effectively. Some Churchills were also converted into close support vehicles with 95 mm howitzers as their main armaments. In response to the growing German anti-tank firepower in the later years of World War II, the Churchill tanks were also upgraded in armour by a large degree, though their engines were also upgraded to compensate for the additional weight. The [[Churchill Mk VII|Churchill Mk.VII]], for example, has armour ranging up to 152 mm thick in the front, in comparison to the Mk.III 89 mm thick front hull. The Churchills also saw service in Europe during Operation Overlord. At the time, it was considered that the Churchill would become severely outdated with the growing tank technology, so an experimental program under specification A43, otherwise known as the [[Black Prince|Black Prince]], to uparmour and upgun the Churchill. While this experimented seem fruitful, the development of more agile tanks with the same level of protection and armament such as the [[Centurion Mk 3|Centurion]] rendered the project obsolete.
The Churchills were also given out to the Allies to help combat the Axis forces. The Australian Army received a handful of Churchills for testing alongside the M4 Sherman with the Matilda II as the basis, to which proved that the Churchill was superior in jungle warfare. Of the 510 Churchills ordered by the Australians in the war, only 46 arrived in time and were not used in the Pacific War, the rest were cancelled with the end of World War II. The USSR also used the Churchills given by the British as part of the Lend-Lease act. 301 Churchills were sent, but 43 were lost to the sea by German naval forces. Of those that arrived, the Soviets gave the Churchills to the 5th Guards Tank Army in the Battle of Prokhorovka during the Kursk Offensive.
After World War II, the Churchill stuck around in the British Army until the Korean War, where the British sent the Churchill Crocodile Squadron (C squadron of the 7th Royal Tank Regiment) to Korea to fight with the Allied coalition. They fought as gun tanks in battle such as the Third Battle of Seoul. The Churchills were instrumental in some victories and were widely praised by both British and American forces and historians. After the Korean war, the Churchills remains in combat service until 1952, with the specialized bridge-layer variant stayin until the 1970s. The Irish Army also received three Churchill tanks in 1948 and another in 1949 as rentals until 1954, where they were purchased after trials with the vehicles. Despite running out of spare parts for the Churchill, the Irish Army took them in and experimented with using different engines to keep them functional, though this ended with a failure and by 1967, only one was still functional. All were retired in 1969 and one was preserved at the Curragh Camp.
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{{Britain heavy tanks}}
Infantry Tank Mk IV A22 "Churchill" Mk III
Heavy tankClass
17 hp/t9 hp/tSurface density
57 mm 6pdr OQF Mk.V cannonMain weapon
shoulderStabilizer
7.92 mm BESA machine gunCoaxial weapon
This page is about the British heavy tank Churchill Mk III. For other uses, see Churchill (Family).
5.2 Variants
5.3 Combat Usage
The Infantry Tank Mk IV A22 "Churchill" Mk III (or just Churchill Mk III) is a Rank III British heavy tank with a battle rating of 4.0 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced in Update 1.55 "Royal Armour" along with the rest of the initial British Ground Forces Tree. Compared to its predecessor, the Mk.III has a more capable 6-pounder gun as its arsenal with its thick front armour.
The Churchill III is one of the best, if not the best, tanks at Rank III. The tank has excellent frontal armour. You can bounce several shots with this tank. Tanks such as the Panzer III, T-34, M4 Sherman, and even the dreaded Panzer IV F2 if angled. Very few tanks can deal with you effectively from the front, such as the M10 or Achilles. The gun on it is also excellent, as it has very high penetration and also very good damage for such a small caliber. A good trait of British guns is it's high rate of fire, allowing you to destroy several tanks quickly. It rarely sees dangerous tanks like the SU-85 or Jagdpanzer IV's.
However, the Churchill III has its limits. The tank is not very fast and does turn quite slowly. From the sides, the engine is easily damaged. The tank is also quite large and long and is a common target for bombers. Also, the sloped front part of the front armour is also weak, you need to angle to be effective with it. It also has a machine gun weak spot on front. The reverse is not as great. Some people do find their way around the armour and decide to shoot your turret or your turret ring. The lower glacis can sometimes be penetrated, but angle your tank to avoid that. Also, along with the 3 inch Gun Carrier, it has thin roof armour and can easily be rocketed.
Rolled homogeneous armour (Hull, Turret)
Cast homogeneous armour (Driver view port, Machine gun area, Gun mantlet)
Hull 89 mm Front plate
89 + 89 mm Front plate (MG Port)
76.2 mm (19°) Lower glacis 63.5 mm Overall side armour
76.2 mm Side hatch
38.1 mm Side edge 50.8 mm
25.4 mm (60-69°) Bottom 19.05 mm Front
15.87 mm Rear
Turret 89 mm (0-49°) Turret front
89 mm (0-30°) Gun mantlet
19.05 mm (77°) Roof area 76.2 mm (0-47°) 76.2 + 7 mm 19.05 mm
Suspension wheels and chassis construction are 20 mm thick while tracks are 30 mm thick.
39.0 N/A 26.4 (AB)
24.9 (RB/SB)
Realistic/Simulator 7.95 8.97
Main article: Ordnance QF 6-pounder Mk.V (57 mm)
57 mm OQF 6-pounder Mk.V
85 -12°/+20° ±180° Vertical
Arcade 14.28 19.80 24.0 26.60 28.20
Realistic 14.28 16.80 20.4 22.60 24.00
5.2 _._ _._ _._
Shot Mk.8 APC 115 111 94 76 62 50
Shell Mk.10 HE 9 9 9 9 9 9
Shot Mk.5 HV AP 113 109 92 74 60 48
Shot Mk.9 APCBC 131 127 110 91 75 63
Shot Mk.8 APC 883 2.9 N/A N/A N/A +4° 48° 63° 71°
Shell Mk.10 HE 655 2.7 0.1 0.1 590 +0° 79° 80° 81°
Shot Mk.5 HV AP 883 2.8 N/A N/A N/A -1° 47° 60° 65°
Shot Mk.9 APCBC 847 3.2 N/A N/A N/A +4° 48° 63° 71°
Ammo rack of the Churchill Mk.III
85 68 (+17) 51 (+34) 34 (+51) 17 (+68) 1 (+84) Yes
Churchill Mk III Optics
Which ones
x1.85 x3.5
Pz.IV G
Main article: BESA (7.92 mm)
7.92 mm BESA
Coaxial mount
Excellent frontal armour.
Almost immune to small caliber guns.
Well armoured sides.
Good Mantlet.
Has access to the 57 mm QF 6-pounder Mk.V cannon. It differs from the Mk. III variant found on the Crusader Mk.III, Valentine Mk.IX and Cromwell I in that it has higher penetration (127mm max).
Tracks are so big, that they will sometimes absorb shots from the side
It's size eliminates any recoil from the gun, making it easy to fire a second shot without losing any accuracy.
Ability to pivot steer.
Large suspension sides have side hits more likely to break tracks than penetrate the hull.
Incredibly hard to dislodge or destroy when properly angled.
Works well as the spearhead of an assault when capturing a point, absorbing damage.
Good acceleration.
Will lose a lot of speed when making a sharp turn in motion.
Has difficulties engaging another heavy tanks.
Up-gunned Panzer IVs are a major threat.
Poor mobility when compared to other heavy tanks from other nations.
Terrible reverse speed.
Boxy armour, although still thick.
Has trouble scaling obstacles.
Very slow, will take a lot of time just to reach the combat zone from spawn points.
Frontal 50 mm weakspot (Machine gun port).
Roof armour is somehow thin.
Ammo racks just below the turret, smart player will shoot you there and will be lethal most of the time.
Priority target by planes due to size and bad reverse speed.
The General Staff specification A20 was implemented before World War II and was meant to replace the Matilda II and Valentine infantry tanks. The specification was based around the British infantry tank doctrine and with the expectation that the coming war would be based off the World War I trench warfare, thus the tank was needed to travel across unfavorable terrain and able to destroy enemy defenses and infantry obstacles. As speed and heavy firepower was not taken with priority, the vehicle was to have two 2-pounder gun on side sponson mounts with a coaxial machine gun, with another machine gun and smoke dischargers on the front hull, armour was about 60 mm on the turret. Four prototypes were made by June 1940 by Harland and Wolff. The front hull would see an upgrade in armament with a 3-inch howitzer during the prototype stages, the 43 ton tank had a 300 hp Meadows engine from the Covenanter tank and was made the tank underpowered. The A20 project was cancelled with the Battle of France, which saw the emergency evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk that left a majority of their heavy equipment behind.
The Battle of France proved that the coming World War II was not going to be a stagnant battlefield like the trench warfare from World War I. The entire concept had to be redesigned and was done so by Henry Merrit, the director of Tank Design at Woolwich Arsenal. His new concept, the A22 or Infantry Tank Mark IV Churchill, was given to Vauxhall Motors in June 1940. War Office requested that the A22 be ready to enter production within the year due to growing pressure of a German invasion of Britain. The designs were ready in July 1940 and the first prototypes were made by December of the same year, production soon followed in June 1941. The rushed development was acknowledged in the company to being the cause of many faults and defects in the tank, but the demand by the government was so great that it must be carried out, with the expectation that the issues will be fixed during production. The Churchill tank suffered from an under-powered engine, weak armament, and mechanical issues. The weak armament from a 2-pounder was fixed with the arming of a 6-pounder on the Churchill, but the other issues caused poor performance of the Churchill in the battlefield. In fact, the Churchill production was almost cancelled in favor of the Cromwell due to its issues, but its usage in the Second Battle of El Alamein proved its value and kept it in service.
The Churchill, used in a multitude of roles, is made into many different variants. 12 different kinds of tank variants were produced for combat roles, with 11 more variants in specialized roles ranging from armoured personnel carrier, a bridge-layer, mine clearer, a 3 inch Gun Carrier, flamethrower tank, and an armoured recovery vehicle.
Combat Usage
The next use of the Churchill was in North Africa during the Second Battle of El Alamein. At this point, the Churchills have been upgraded to the Mk.III variants with 6-pounders as their main armament. The detachment, code named "King Force", help supported the 7th Motor Brigade in their attack. The Churchills were fired upon by many German anti-tank weapons, but none were taken out with only one receiving note worthy damage. "King Force", as a test bed for the feasibility of Churchills operating in the desert environment, was disbanded with the establishment of the 25th Army Tank Brigade with the Churchills to see action in February 1943 in Tunisia. In the German offensive Operation Ochsenkpf, two Churchill Mk.III from the 51st Royal Tank Regiment came across an entire German transport column that they ambushed. The end result was a loss of twelve artillery pieces, 25 wheeled vehicles, two Panzer IIIs and 200 casualties on the German side with no losses for the British. The Churchill also played a key role in the Battle of Longstop Hill, where Churchill tanks in the 48th Royal Tank Regiment faced off with Germany's newest heavy tank Tiger I. Though suffering losses, a lucky 6-pounder shot from the Churchill ended up jamming the Tiger's turret and turret ring that injured the crew, forcing them to abandon the tank. The Tiger tank was captured by the British for intelligence purpose on Germany's armoured forces. The Tiger Tank is named Tiger 131.
After the North African campaign, the Churchill began to see widespread usage in the British army as a support unit for the infantry. The Churchill saw much more operation hours than any other British tank in service. It was at this point that the Churchill Mk.III began a conversion into the 75 mm guns that were used on the American M4 Sherman tanks. These conversions, known as NA75, proved to be more efficient than the Shermans and were used more effectively. Some Churchills were also converted into close support vehicles with 95 mm howitzers as their main armaments. In response to the growing German anti-tank firepower in the later years of World War II, the Churchill tanks were also upgraded in armour by a large degree, though their engines were also upgraded to compensate for the additional weight. The Churchill Mk.VII, for example, has armour ranging up to 152 mm thick in the front, in comparison to the Mk.III 89 mm thick front hull. The Churchills also saw service in Europe during Operation Overlord. At the time, it was considered that the Churchill would become severely outdated with the growing tank technology, so an experimental program under specification A43, otherwise known as the Black Prince, to uparmour and upgun the Churchill. While this experimented seem fruitful, the development of more agile tanks with the same level of protection and armament such as the Centurion rendered the project obsolete.
[Devblog] A22B Сhurchill Mk.III and A22 Churchill Mk.VII (with developers answers)
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"Pisces For the Aquarian Era" and More Post-Pisces Clearance on the Love Front
Pisces Season. Sleepy. Shh.
Photo: Willow
We are now moving into a 29-degree Aquarius New Moon on February 18 (5:47 p.m. CST) - the bookend New Moon to the zero-degree Aquarius New Moon we experienced January 20.
New Moons indicate new cycles opening and something fresh about to unfold, especially related to emotions and emotional patterns. With bookend New Moons in Aquarius, we are developing and securing an emotional anchor that will carry us through the turbulence and into the new astrological era.
Now, according to my data, this February 18 New Moon occurs on the very last breath of Aquarius, at the very last possible moment of the sign. Other people are calling this a zero-degree Pisces New Moon.
To me, it doesn't really matter all that much. We are in a major "change of eras" transition and a major clearing of the emotional slate as we move through the first months of 2015. It's a little messy, a little confusing, but a lot exhilarating. And it likely isn't necessary to quibble over the details.
What we can be sure of is that this New Moon keeps those "change of era" themes rolling.
From now through the 29-degree Aquarius New Moon, both relationship-related planets, Venus and Mars, are traveling through oh-so-karmic late Pisces. It requires nothing less than Uranian dynamite charges to break up and change the dynamics and patterns held here. Lucky for us, Uranus is in very strong and influential position at the moment. You can read more about the effects of the strong Uranus energy during the first months of 2015 in this post: "Powerfully-Positioned Uranus in Aries Leads the Charge Through Aquarius Season."
As we move into Pisces season 2015 (February 18 - March 20), we're making the final transition into a new expression for the sign of Pisces - Pisces for the astrological Aquarian era. This is true for all 12 of the zodiac signs. The way we express them in the new era is different, and we are tasked with experimenting and figuring out what will be successful in every passing moment. Challenging!
But Pisces may just be the trickiest sign to transition, caught as it is so often in the attachment to old-era love ideals, dreams, and illusions. The cycles of bliss then torment, hope then despair. And repeat. And repeat. And repeat.
The 29-degree New Moon in Aquarius propels us into a highly-potent Pisces season. But it is a Pisces season coloured by necessary change from start to finish. We are tasked with transitioning the expression of the sign of Pisces over the next lunar month (and beyond), and this particularly involves hopes, dreams, relationships, and ideals of love.
During the astrological Piscean era, we learned such nuggets of wisdom as: Love hurts. Love scars. Love wounds. You have to suffer for love. The more you suffer, the deeper your love. If it doesn't torment and mistreat you, it isn't real love.
Well, sorry, Roy Orbison, but your beautiful song has now passed into the classics, a song for an old era. (I'm sure you would be glad to hear that, anyway.)
Pisces is known for the heroic lengths it will go to in order to long and pine and sigh and hurt and torture itself over ideas and ideals of love and over the projected object of its affection.
Old school Pisces wants complete immersion in love and in a loved one. Always. And forever. It wants to be wrapped up in a cocoon of unending love, adoration, and support from the universe and from other people. It wants to do a continual backstroke in the auric field of the one it desires. Blissful communion and spiritual ecstasy with nothing reality-based that might burst its bubble.
But we're moving on from that as the dominant ideal for love. Those things exist in love, certainly, but they are no longer the singular ideal for which we are holding out.
That old school love ideal ain't coming back (thank goodness), and those who are wasting time waiting on it will be moved into the new era via Uranian shocks to the system, like it or not.
There is no time, no energy, no inclination left to torture ourselves over anyone else or over any outdated ideals for love.
If you haven't noticed by now, it isn't actually about that individual. It's about figuring out the energy and the dynamics that are stirred by that individual, outsmarting them, and then moving through them until you're free.
Under the astrological Aquarian era, Pisces loves freely, just as it always did. But Pisces must also ensure that loving someone does not drag it into the same old traps. The pure and open-hearted love given so generously by Pisces must be applied a little more intelligently, with a little more discernment, with a bit higher standards.
Pisces loves as openly and fully and divinely as it ever did under the astrological Aquarian era, but it does so without preconceived expectations about what that will mean or what that will bring in return.
The intent behind the love has to be cleared.
We do not love to obligate others to us. We do not love only so that we can receive love in return. We do not love only to help or heal or prop others up. We do not love because we feel guilty or beholden or sorry for someone. We do not love simply so that we don't have to move forward.
Under the current scene, if it hurts, it isn't love. If it hurts, it's an old Neptunian trick you have to figure out, an old Piscean-era construct, a mirage you need to move through.
Or on the other hand, if it hurts, it may be a point of too-extreme detachment, too much cold Aquarius, too hard an angle. Going too far into the Aquarian extreme can be just as painful, requiring the correct application of Piscean love to bridge the gap. Pisces is the sign of union, remember, the last sign of the zodiac, the sign that brings it all together.
So on the Piscean end of things, if it hurts, you need to let it go. You need to detach from it. You need to re-formulate, distract yourself, propel yourself beyond it.
But on the Aquarian end of things, if it hurts, you need to make the loving connection, build the bridge, bring it back to love, bring it back to union and communion. You need to hold space for the love that fills the cracks and makes us whole again.
With the transiting North Node of the Moon in Libra into November 2015, maintaining the right Aquarius-Pisces balance, particularly in relationships, is key.
We have one last week with Venus and Mars in Pisces stirring the old-era dynamics, and then something shifts.
Mars enters Aries February 19, and Venus enters Aries February 20. They form a conjunction at 1-degree Aries on February 21 (11:13 p.m.) that kicks off a fresh new direction in relationships, love, sex, values, money matters, and personal goals. This is a "first day of spring" vibe coming into our interpersonal relations, a major propulsion into new territory. Ride the wave. Fight for it, even.
From their conjunction February 21, Venus and Mars will continue through Aries and trigger the Uranus-Pluto square. Venus forms a conjunction to Uranus in Aries and a square to Pluto in Capricorn March 4. Mars follows suit March 11.
Honestly, anything could happen this March with the final Uranus-Pluto square at 15 Aries/Capricorn on March 16 and a New Moon total solar eclipse on 29 degrees Pisces, the last degree of the zodiac, on March 20. There is a definite shake-up and re-positioning in relationships and money matters this March, and it is all-encompassing. Our personal directions and goals could change - and then change again - on a dime. We're moving through very unstable and changeable energy this March. Don't fight it. Just go with it as cheerfully as possible.
If anything descends on your heart like a wet paper bag this Pisces season, fight your way out of it. It's just a wet paper bag. It's easy to break free from - as long as you're willing to try.
Don't roll over and play dead. Don't weep about the hopelessness of the situation. At least, don't indulge in those things for long.
Strong-arm that motherfucker. Show this dead-end Pisces energy you mean business. Grab it by the short and curlies, show it who's boss, and then show it the door. This will be easier once Venus and Mars form their conjunction at 1 degree Aries on February 21.
The Piscean era is over - if we make it so.
So let's make it so.
Laugh at the silly little Neptune tricks. Don't allow them to take you down. Don't allow them to erode your self-confidence or sense of well-being.
Communication planet Mercury is now direct (as of February 11) in early Aquarius. As I wrote about previously, there are some cautions related to this extended Mercurial stay in Aquarius, especially with the potency of dispositor Uranus in Aries right now:
"[Mercury in Aquarius] will bring us information, insight, and perspective about the way forward from here. We will be wrapping our minds around the changes we have been through, the changes we are experiencing now, and the changes that are yet to come. We are being informed of the new blueprints - and of last-minute changes to those new blueprints. It is a challenge to stay up-to-date with everything that is unfolding...
The perspective and new ideas we come to through this Mercury retrograde are quite vast and long-reaching. We may be able to see years, decades, or even centuries down the road. Mercury will transit Aquarius until March 11, so we have an extended period of time to mentally integrate the continually-unfolding scenarios.
But Mercury in Aquarius disposited by Uranus in Aries in its current position indicates a definite possibility of mental circuitry overload, and this possibility is also extended into early March. There is some mental burnout possible...
Shut off the damn cell phones! Shut off the computer for a while. Stay off social media for a couple days - or more.
Limiting technology time is one way to protect our tired synapses, especially in the days surrounding the Mercury stations.
We have to apply our own versions of "surge protectors" to our brains and nervous systems over the next three months in order to counteract the intense Uranian charge. We can only stay wired for so long until it starts to have adverse effects.
Uranus is conjunct the South Node in Aries, which means we have to balance that erratic and at times overwhelming charge via the Libra North Node. Keeping our balance while maintaining a sense of peace amidst any turmoil and upheaval is our soul-level challenge now. This is our path to success."
Happy Pisces Season, all!
Labels: aquarian age, chiron in pisces, mars in pisces, new moons, pisces, venus in pisces
Just perfect! You are simple the best!!Lucia
Greg F said...
On this eve of Valentine's Day, I read the Wikipedia version of his life. There were many associated with the name, as the article mentions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine
My favorite St. Valentine story is about the one who married couples that were 'in love' despite their parents' misgivings. A Piscean hangover, I suppose.
I love this article, Willow. Thank you for your amazing insight. Have a wonderful weekend.
so good- Thanks Willow!
Thank-you, guys! Happy Valentine's.
Jessiemo said...
the piscean love model ending is so true. for the first time in my life i'm quite cool about a (piscean) boyfriend flaking out and disappearing. i.e. dumping me. i no longer feel it's got anything to do with me being all wrong as i used to do. quite sanguine. of course i'm older but it's lovely to feel this way. i felt sad for a while but also could live days normally. i have some Aquarian coolth and individuality. and he was a big love.
Very inspiring piece, Willow! Loved it! Happy Heart Day.
Sorry for writing so much, I know Im a little wierd...LOL umm, I think I did this right, although it could be my Mercury opp Jupiter. I have read that since Leo Rules the Heart, Leo Ascsendant mates are a little lacking in that area. And I feel that. I have to show them ways of love. & sometimes this means shutting of the sunshine when they act up.
I understand he has Saturn Syndrome and he has been doing a pretty good job of keeping it to a minimum. He also has Mars Opposite Sun and Mars in the 10th, so he starts to not rule his stars and find me more something of his old pals at the office of the Mainstream News Corps.
He forgets that I AM NOT THEM! I have the most uncompetitive 9 life path/Mars In Virgo. Im just not here to win. I just want to get the job done/ have frauds come into the collective. But he sees himself doing "less"- less passionate, less able to wade through the frauds I point out. And he thinks he's less for that. But I cannot help it. And I have to help people and we have to survivie so I have to point stuff out., ITs really real out there right now and being a 9 life path is hard. He a 6, which is equally of value, and a 9 cannot be if it cant regain some sense of family, he does not realize how much of a support he is. & he needs to be proud of what he has done.
I cant help it if im more of a people person. But I forgive that, and he has an 11th house Moon that, after running through the other planets first, gets to his moon and sees the bigger picture. He calms down and start to truly value him self- Not in relation to others, and not in relation to others work as a Virgo South Node would.
Because, I do need some sense of a family member being proud of me and not a threat when you do not get hired and your mate does, it just ain't fair to and play busy. So we are on speaking terms after my INFJ door slam. And I like that he lets me do my underground bomb explode anger thing, and then we go back to what we said about the long haul.
He knows this is his last chance with someone so young and of my disposition. He thinks I do not look up to him, but I do. In a way he will probably not understand until he passes on. I think like a lot of Gemini's, just get used for the busyness by less than honest organizations in there early life. And Im trying to get him to rely on the untapped Pisces ASC North Node. People have told him those traits are not of value. He will have much more fun, not having to win/work in a Virgoian sense all the time.
Work CAN be fun, and driving by deep Piscean compassion for others. Not just looking to the government or the white man for another a job he will grow to dispise. He we need people strong enough to do "nothing" and not have to be anything, people need to feel value sans resumes and work history's. He even admitted this is what he really likes to do the most! And Im gonna help him learn some of that with my own Pisces Placements.
**Happy V day Everyone, just a side note if my writing is too much. Totally understand! if no one reads it or you are storied out from clients. / or want to post it. Its therapy just writing it, and helps me know where Im going. I have no idea with Mercury In Pisces what is ok. Or overwhelming, appropriate, or too much. Just go with my gut. lol
HAHA LOVED THE I LOVE YOU VERIFY ROBOT THING.
O just one last thing not about relationships! lol. something so scarily syncroncitous during the retrograde, Larry- A feb 5th Aquarian and I, Feb 7 both lost our keys, A N D our food card, at the at the same time!?! The day he went to go get a new card. I gave up looking for mine and went to go get a new one a few hours later. Since I was tired from key searching the other days. Funny thing is we are not that close so I did'nt lose it with him, I will share why.
He is a level Pluto Hoarder, to the point that he "cleans" his apt by putting things in the hallway to do it, ok some might say I'm OCD clean. Appears because i'm too organized. LOL If your not bored yet- I was scared to look in the closet the first couple times I visited, I thought it was pointless as it would look the same, YOU KNOW AQUARIANS LOVE SUPRISES and this guy does EVERYTIME! the top of his closet, and inside was nice! this is the one very small closet, is all WE get, i understand it ain't easy.
But my God im saying this with the most sincere Piscean Compassion, but the top of the shelf had NOTHING ON IT but a fan, Yet, his ENITIRE room has NO space to move in. Full of multiple chairs piled on, papers and anything you could think of, for a single room occupancy. He has mirror quirk, and sets them on the floor. I hear breaking mirrors in the middle of the night, and him setting each piece (high Im sure) in to the bin with a single hand as I look out to make sure he has not gone bleeding everywhere. He hangs nothing on the wall. So, No I did not lose my keys "partying up" with him.
I nearly lost my cool just being in his apt from the not just hoarding, but pure unsanitary conditions, I have tried to help him a few times, once taking a putird, black sour modly bag of bread out to throw in the garbage, which was just there with other rotting stuff, to see what his reaction would be and if I could help em. To move some things, This is after knowing him 5 years, but he acts just like those people on Youtube, and his hospitality turns to brunt anger and more future plans!
I told him he is never going to get to his future wall collage plans, because he always brings in a new piece of street furniture. Which- brings more confusion and, also adds to our chance of getting bed bugs!! I told him to make a square with tape keep the sentimentals, what does not fit in the square, do not bring in. He says all the time, I have to get outta that room. so I tried. Yes I did, 3 times He nods yes, and is sometimes corgal about it. But. It is interesting to say the least. It is just so.. so odd as he sounds SOOO normal if you talk to him and he's sober. You would never know, so it is just, I cannot find the link inside my mind where you can know about the depths of government corruption carry on swimming conversations, but not be able to let go of things. keep the closet immaculate but the room you live in?
But, he has a scorpio ASC. his room is on the side that has NO Sun. It faces another building, a brick wall is all you see, which I used to have when I first lived here, but once the building manager a Leo, seen I was a tenant she would like people to see, she moved me on the floor that they take people for viewing future residence and the office. For a while she would bring people to see my APT as the viewing apt, but lets face it, I have Scorpio IC and Moon, I did not take well to her want for long, as that was much of a compliment, I still needed and need to heal privately. My space is pretty personal, but it was nice to know (ESP for a Leo Ascendant) Someone wants to show you off. But oddly the darkness, I think his ASC actually likes it, Where I enjoy the street, playing house music for the artists walking by and Sunshine for meh Leo ASC.
Its just so cool. Everything is in its place, and the Universe Really Loves Us!a
You write so beautifully and thoughtfully and potently, Willow - thanks for the wonderful insights.
Wonderful, helpful post, Willow - I see a lot of kicking & screaming (evident behind peoples' words & actions) that tells me many are really trying to hang on to the Pisces sacrificial love-energy, often to their detriment. Surely, I did my share of that kind of romance when I was young, but am much more comfortable with working to balance the idealism with the reater clarity of Aquarius. But I do hope we don't all become too hard-edged pragmatic, with a rather utilitarian view of our relationships. We need to keep some of that Piscean energy, too. I've in the past been hurt by that utilitarian attitude in a partner - I have no one close in my life at present, but would settle for nothing less than a balance.
Thank-you for fostering some thinking through of all this.
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In 2018, the library introduced the concept of neighbourhood collections, with materials that were traditionally housed in different sections of the library being brought together to facilitate ease of access and discovery opportunities. To date, three new neighbourhood collections have been created - the East Asian Collection, Yaitya Ngutupira, and the Recreational Reading Collection.
Our largest collection, however, can be found online, with the library managing and providing access to over 100,000 online journals and over 750,000 eBooks. Learn more about the library's online collections.
The Main Collection reflects the broad offerings of the University and covers the largest range of course-related subjects and areas of general interest.
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This collection in particular is developing from the physical to the electronic and digital, offering our patrons wider access to library materials away from campus. This includes not only online books and journals, but also digitised primary source materials from rare and specialised collection worldwide, especially developed digitised resources, and streamed music and visual materials.
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This collection brings together the former collections of the Elder Music Library. In 2002 during its previous incarnation, the Performing Arts Library, the Elder Music Library amalgamated with the Barr Smith Library Music Collection, the Fulton Library of the South Australian College of Advanced Education, and the Flinders Street School of Music.
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Contact the Indigenous Support Librarian for further information about Yaitya Ngutupira.
Members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities are advised that this collection may contain names and images of deceased people. All users should also be aware that certain words, terms or descriptions may be culturally sensitive and may be considered inappropriate today, but may have reflected the author’s/creator’s attitude or that of the period in which they were written.
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It is made up of over 10,000 volumes of print materials acquired by the Library, as well as those generously donated over the years. Highlights include impressive sets of Japanese literature and specialist material covering the period of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1970).
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Economy fare passengers are entitled to take one piece of the bag plus one small item, like a handbag or thin laptop weighing not more than 15lbs. However, the passengers of Premium Economy, Business Premier, connecting Business Premier, and Airpoints™ Gold, Elite, and Star Alliance Gold members are allowed to carry two bags weighing no more than 30lbs altogether along with one personal item with the weight limit of 22lbs.
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Christchurch International Airport
Wellington International Airport
Alliance Star Alliance
Subsidiaries Air New Zealand Link
Fleet size 65 (excl. subsidiaries)
Destinations 51 (incl. subsidiaries)
Parent company New Zealand Government (53%)
Headquarters Wynyard Quarter, Auckland City, New Zealand
Key people Christopher Luxon, CEO
Website www.airnewzealand.com/gateway
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New Zealand Government is the parent company of the airline acquiring its 53% shares. Christopher Luxon is presently the CEO of the organization. Air New Zealand (NZ) is also one of the prominent members of the Star Alliance.
As of 2018 statistics, Air New Zealand (NZ) flies to more than 31 international and 20 domestic destinations in nineteen countries across Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania. The entire flight operations are managed and operated from its hubs based in Auckland Airport (AKL), Christchurch International Airport (CHC), and Wellington International Airport (WLG). Moreover, the airline has also maintained Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Sydney Airport (SYD) as its focus cities.
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